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ANGELA CARLTON: Before the Light Shifted

Before the light shifted, you faded, ghost skin, hallucinations, loud whispers in your head. Before the light shifted, we waited-waited for medications to make you whole.

ANGELA CARLTON: Before the Light Shifted

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Before the light shifted, you faded, ghost skin, hallucinations, loud whispers in your head.

Before the light shifted, we waited-waited for medications to make you whole.

Before the light shifted, mother, you played piano under the stage lights.

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Before the light shifted, you faded, ghost skin, hallucinations, loud whispers in your head. Before the light shifted, we waited-waited for medications to make you whole. Before the light shifted, mother, you played piano under the stage lights.

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Before the light shifted, mother, you played piano under the stage lights. We waited, for the next chapter, our new beginning to the end. Angela Carlton's fiction has been … Continue reading ANGELA CARLTON:

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