Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

Small Hours by Sindhu Shivaprasad

How to reveal a secret

... and a list of what I've been loving lately

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Sindhu Shivaprasad
Jan 21, 2022
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The sandwich:

A secret casually slipped between two innocuous layers: of jokes and daily messages; an emoji and an LOL. Hiding in the cracks of everydayness like an ugly surprise, an ingredient that isn’t quite right.

The obvious:

A secret laid bare, bald on the kitchen table in the spur of a drunken moment, the ai…

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