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Submitted to Contest #326
(Think of yourself as dead.) She sat holding a blister pack of tiny white pills. Swallowing one each day was her only proof that time was passing. Only a few pills remained, even fewer once she popped one into her mouth. She never opened the list of side effects, leaving it tucked inside the book she never meant to read. The door creaked, breaking the silence. She choked on the pill. Coughing, crouched, she tried to recognize the boots of the unfamiliar figure standing in the doorway. (You’ve lived your life.) She hated routine. Yet she ...
Submitted to Contest #247
The woman gripped his shoulders, nails digging into his flesh through the thin fabric. He avoided the woman's piercing gaze, the unnatural joy holding the corners of her lips upwards. He chose to ignore her twitching eye, the tears humbling her face. This woman was his mother, or so he believed.The woman shook him, voice laced with fear, "Never question, obey."The boy lived in a rather strange place - a nameless world. A world in which life seemed scripted, much like a play in theatre. Now, the curtains were closed, the next scene yet t...
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