Whispers Between The Walls
med of
scream, but the ocean took my voice, and when I turned to run, I saw him. Standing
sp, fingers tang
the curtains. Rain whispered outside like it hadn't stopped all night. I rolle
st the ones
know wh
ing to think th
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ast wa
dlelight, and the kind of tension that didn't come from hunger. Everyone looke
h a muffin and an apology for fallin
watching me stir my tea. "
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about but can't stop thinking about' look." She
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she wasn
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aded windows and ancient oak shelves that smelled like dust and arguments.
ying Macbeth
trayal. These are not just literary devices. These are h
that was a warnin
ass, someone slipped i
im there. That calm energy
once, twice,
down at my note
op of my page, in handw
mad. He just st
and didn't
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ws, like God had cracked open a secret just a little. I wandered outside instead of ea
rmed. Vines coiled too perfectly up the sides of stone towers. Benche
a corner
he was
n a stone ledge ove
when I approached. Just tilted his head
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tices when
an't be
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reful not to look at
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not what
thout pity. As if I was something delica
one who expects the
it alre
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drawn m
ont of a wall. One hand pressed again
in the stone-were faces.
hiv
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dded
draw e
t the ones I can't
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the four houses. It was something about tradition versus inno
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all, I found myself standing near the windows, watching rain bead a
stepped
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to turn to k
of clean soap and old book
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re that's a
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replied. "Bu
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d him wa
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ndows, and the rain picked
quiet, the bed too stiff, my chest t
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