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Weekly Contest #74
I don’t entirely remember how old I was when Mother locked me away in the Dark Room. Twelve, perhaps? Well, the exact age doesn’t matter, I suppose, only that it was one of those in-between ages; between girlhood and womanhood, you could say. An age in which being locked away in a room without windows—the only way in which to see the outside world one so desperately wanted to be a part of—felt like a death sentence. Perhaps it was in a way, a death sentence. Being locked away in the...
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