He said it like a wound. Like the word itself had teeth. “Fire.” It stuck in my throat, in my clothes, in the spaces between us that felt too small for oxygen. His stories crawled under my skin—bikes, marshmallows, gasoline—until my pulse started answering memories I didn’t remember mak… Continues…
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