Of Secrets and Shadows
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Last published Tue, Aug 22, 2017
I didn't know what to do. The only thing I knew was that I was surrounded by the thoughts that tormented me as a child.
And then I saw him. The thing I had been seeing...
"YOU AREN'T REAL!"
I began to cover my ears and rock myself back and forth for comfort.
I had been cornered with no escape; a stream of salty warm tears that irritated my skin ran down my face. Then he came closer.
"LEAVE ME ALONE," I warned, "DONT YOU DARE COME CLOSER!"
By then I tried to find a way around him knowing: he wouldn't stop.
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Beth's past makes her eternally afraid of her blood father, yet she never understood why her body would scream caution signals around him. She deals with this questioning feeling for most of her teen years, until she finds a thoughtful piece of information. And instead of burying it inside, thinking it as another superstition of her mind, decides to go hunting for the answers to her unspoken wonders.
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