More fiction today - a little dark, but it WAS a pretty grey and depressing day today…

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Flash, Bang, Zip

First, there was dark. And then, in an instant, light: over-bright, cliché light. The kind described in every Liftetime Made-for-TV Movie, every sappy love story. I was blinded by it until, in an instant, it winked out and was replaced by a furious flash of clips – the scenes of a life.

FLASH: I am six years old, sitting on my grandfather’s knee, staring up into hard brown eyes buried in a shriveled apple-doll face as I am told “NO!” over and over again without ever understanding why.
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