We both lived underwater, yet he still found a way to set himself on fire. I finally remembered the hidden matches that I never took notice in. The burns that left him stuttering when I questioned them. The smoke in his room that always made me eerie about leaving him alone. I didn't know it would end up like this. I couldn't have known. But now I wish I did.

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Snippets
Short StoryThis book is filled with ideas that didn't want to be anything more than snippets of something that could have been. Original photo: http://alabamachanin.com/journal/2012/06/lie-still/