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Borders by Maria Clara Klein

ShortStory 1,396 words

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Before you open your eyes, you know you're not home. The weighted blanket gave it away, wrapped around your body like a tortilla, turning you into a breakfast fucking burrito on that cold, cold early morning. The weather — that was the next sign. You know, it's never really cold in Bahia, so where the hell are you now, shivering, curled up like a kitten on the hardest mattress you ever laid on (so different from the one in your bedroom)? If you pretend you're still unconscious, maybe you'll…

Diaspora SFDiasporaSouth America

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Second PersonMagical RealismTenderFragmentedIntimateSpeculative FictionNear FutureWryMelancholicMemoryGrief And LossContemporaryIdentityVoice DrivenScience Fiction

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suicide

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