Don't Let The Forest In
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Started reading August 25, 2025
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It hadn’t hurt, the day he had cut out his own heart.
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Ones with dark, bitter corners and magic curled into thorns. Ones about monsters with elegant, razor-like teeth.
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Andrew suspected this year would beat him up in a back alley and leave him for dead.
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It was easier to speak less and hide his softest parts so he could fit between the shadows
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He couldn’t risk allowing his mouth to say the things he only dared scream in his head.
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had an expression flat as a severed heartbeat.
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Dove could be tossed into anything and she’d bounce. Andrew was a glass figurine. Drop him and he shattered.
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Or because Thomas only knew how to bite people for attention.
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They walked slow, adrenaline draining with each step and leaving them with bones of water.
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October arrived with cold teeth sharp enough to split bone.
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“I’m not the one scared of October,” Andrew said, as if he wasn’t scared of everything else.