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Weekly Contest #324
In the end, there was nothing she could do. Years of work and effort, of pretending, false smiles hiding bruised cheeks and hurt limbs. All for nothing. The urgency that boiled through her veins, the panic that crept forward in her every waking moment, the restlessness that plagued her sleep. Gone now. Left her body empty, veins hollow, and mind blank. Everything she’d worked so hard for, every single precious thing she’d known, slipped through her hands, through her fingers, grains of sand from a broken hourglass. She had worked so hard, sa...
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