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flash fiction by Phebe Jewell

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Sep 14, 2022
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She misses her fins most. One minute she’s turning in warm thick seas, the next squeezed through a narrow tunnel out to a cold wide space. Lights. A hard slap. Fingers prodding her. Her body has changed. Heavy. She needs air now.

Fists uncurled, her starfish hands explore this hard-angled place. She dives into sle…

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