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“Start or end your story with the line “I should have known better.””

Posted in Dialogue on Jul 31, 2026

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Who You Really Were

CC Smyth

Weekly Contest #366

Please note this story contains sensitive material, abuse of power and a relationship with an underaged person. I should have known better. I had a boyfriend when we first met, a really lovely boyfriend with sandy brown hair and a permanently perplexed demeanour as he attempted to deal with me. Truth be told he was dull as dishwater and brought me into his life and planted me like an exotic flower in soil from the garden centre. He wanted me to “doe normal” as they say in the Netherlands, calm down, fit in, stop wearing floral patterns. I w...

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