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The lair smelled like solder and bad decisions.
The lair smelled like solder and bad decisions.
The morning started with Donnie eating toast over the sink the way he always did
Ruthanne stopped apologizing years ago.
I can make it ring.
The room is cold. A hospital cold that lives in the walls.
Three flowers, a knife, and the burden of knowing what mercy costs.
Between panes of glass, choice slips away.
Vanilla musk. She never changes.
It started as a joke, really. Betsy dared me.
“Why are you late?”
Lucy trembled…
She’s a smoke show.