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Story 14 – Cellblock-chapter 2

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Ruth didn’t speak to me for the next two days.

She moved through the cell like I was furniture—climbing down for count, leaving for chow, returning to the bottom bunk with a book she never seemed to finish. When I tried once to thank her again for the shower room she only said, “Don’t,” and turned her face to the wall. The silence was worse than the rudeness. It left too much room for the strange pull in my chest every time I heard her breathing below me at night.

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