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NO PLACE LEFT

Author: ZIA
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The room was quiet—too quiet. The kind of silence that clawed at your throat. I sat on the bed, my fingers clenched around the termination letter like it had personally betrayed me. The words blurred together under the dim light of my bedside lamp, but the sting of it was clear.

You are hereby dismissed from your position…

Effective immediately…

Due to incidents of misconduct…

What a joke.

I let the paper fall from my hands and flutter to the floor like a dying bird. I wasn’t going to cry. Not again.

Instead, I started to pack.

Clothes. Toiletries. My books. My notebook with all the scrawled warnings and half-baked theories about the woman—the witch. A few faded photographs that used to make this place feel like a temporary home. Now it was nothing more than a reminder that I didn’t belong here. Not with the rest of them. Not in this sterile, fearful building that watched me like I might combust at any moment.

I stuffed the last of my things into my bag, zipped it up, and threw on my
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