dailyprompt
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I got lost on the University of Wisconsin-Madison grounds. The buildings rose like monuments, each one insisting it knew where I should go, but none of them pointed me toward home. Maps were bolted to kiosks, but the arrows blurred, and the paths twisted into questions I couldn’t answer. As I walked, I felt the…
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I was a few years older.I had already folded the shirt.Already ridden the bus.Already survived the binder snapping shut.Eric came later—but he stayed. He texted me all day.Not because I asked.Not because I was falling.But because he knew the silence could bruise. A joke.A memory.A question about lunch.A reminder that I was still here. His…
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The bottle was white. Generic. No warning label for betrayal. Just a name—Ambien—and a dosage that promised sleep. Not escape. Not euphoria. Just sleep. I took it because the nights were loud. Not with sound, but with memory. The kind that loops. The kind that doesn’t ask for permission. The kind that makes you relive…