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Where the Light Stays by Void · Loreum

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BOTH ARMS CRADLE YOU NOW
"Thank you, Jesse. Really. Thank you — and I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. I'm not afraid of you now, Corin. Villain and violent. Infant and innocent. Baby, both arms cradle you now. Both arms cradle you now…" Both Arms Cradle You Now — literary coming-of-age, first-person, set in the fictional rust-belt town of Cinder Falls, Ohio (Mahoning Valley), mid-2010s.

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