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Submitted to Contest #228
Content warning: violence, language, allusion to suicide.DECEMBER 21I am the only one who knows. This is our family’s last Christmas together. None of them would be all that surprised, but it is not for the reasons they think. I am eighty-nine years old. Roselyn is eighty-seven. She is not well. That is why we are gathered here today in this stale, lifeless gathering room in some forgotten back corner of Magdalene Assisted Living. I cannot care for Roselyn any longer, and she has long been unable to care for herself.I dig my thumb into my br...
Submitted to Contest #227
It is only an ice bath, but none of your parishioners ever describe it that way. They never mention the cold at all. Words like freezing or frigid or icy never escape their cerulean, trembling lips. They never recount any tingling or numbing in their pallid hands and feet, constricted like frozen amethyst in the aftermath.Instead, they articulate the pain. The stabbing of many knives as the body meets the water, displacing thick clumps of ice, clinking against the tub’s steel walls. The sharpness of their last gasping breath, scorching the l...
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