Areum: A Short Story

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The only thing you’ll hear when entering the ring it the quiet humming and thud of your face eating dirt. Down in seconds; your world is flipped and the air is forced out of your lungs. The match over and your shame building, but all you can hear is that goddamn humming; deafening over the roar of the crowd. That is how most matches against Areum end with back straight and steps elegant as she leaves her opponent in shambles of the blazing inferno that shattered them. Her life has been a whirlwind of conflict, but she has remained a stalwart force. When everything was ripped away from her she neither swore vengeance nor was cowed by fear of the cruel and unforgiving world. She persevered for herself; she lived for herself; fought for herself.

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