Darkcontemporaryfiction Stories
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Like a Reed Blowing in the Wind
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Parts 8
People always talk about breaking as though it happens all at once. Like glass. Like thunder. Like something loud enough for witnesses. But nobody talks about bending. Nobody talks about the slow work of becoming smaller to fit inside someone else’s expectations. About learning which parts of yourself make people uncomfortable and folding them away. About smiling...