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Submitted to Contest #251
A book lays in my sister’s place. Sometimes she’s gone for hours because she is reading, gardening, or sewing and lost track of time. Always missing in action. This time it’s different. Thirty-four hours since she went up to her room to read. Books are her safe place, where she can forget that she lives in my shadow. I don’t mean to outshine her, but even now the sunlight through the window casts my long silhouette over the Mia shaped indent in the bed. My lip goes between my teeth as I stifle a scream that turns into a sob. No one has ...
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