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Submitted to Contest #335
She learned early that answers were optional—not because she decided it or wrote some secret rule to follow, but because it was the first survival trick that worked. Someone would ask where she was from, what her childhood was like, whether she had siblings, and before the question could settle, she’d feel it: that tightening in her chest, the quiet warning that rose before thought. So she learned to pivot. “Oh, I grew up all over,” she’d say lightly, smiling like it was nothing. “What about you? Were you close with your family?” And people ...
Submitted to Contest #333
The plate was empty. White porcelain. Unmarked. Set slightly apart from the others on the long dining table. She noticed it with a small, unreasonable lift of hope — the kind that came before thought, before experience corrected her. She was already seated when she noticed it. Hands folded in her lap. Back straight without remembering why. Maybe this time, she thought, though she wasn’t sure what she meant by it. The Victorian house held the late afternoon carefully. Light filtered through lace curtains yellowed with age, breaking itself acr...
Submitted to Contest #286
She holds it gently, as she has for years. The paper is frail now, worn thin by time, its edges softened under the weight of memory. The string remains knotted tightly—just as it was the day he placed it in her hands. It crackles beneath her fingertips. She hesitates, afraid that if she holds it too tightly, the memory might disappear, dissolving like mist at dawn. She remembers. A small voice, full of excitement and something deeper—something sacred—tugged at her heart. "Open it slowly, Mama. You do NOT want to let it out." Tiny hands hover...
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