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The Mother Wound
Nightfall brings it all back. The clock gives a cold stare and the stars hide behind clouds as darkness falls, and it begins, as it always has, and always will. They can hear her, and they know what she has become. The Earth has run, and I am alone, in the abyss. I had hoped…
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Shadows Of A Promise
I never understood how she got out every night. I kept the keys in my hands, and in the morning, they were still trapped, tightly in my fist, but the door was unlocked, and Grandma was gone. Every single night. As the sun struggled to rise from its slumber, I’d slowly count in my head,…
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The Bullet
I told you that I had left New York for good, but I told you a lot of things. I’m not a liar, I just don’t keep up with the future, and so I really never meant to make it back here, and I really thought that I had moved past this, but here we…
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A Mother’s Prayer
I was dressed in a mother’s prayer, walking golden miles in stolen shoes. The night had noticed me, stuck around and watched with wide, wicked eyes, watching me as I walked, unbothered, beneath the moon, like I used to, before I broke down my walls. I keep my hopes in the aurora borealis, because my…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 