#Excerpt “Controlled Rebellion” by Carli Frueh
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#Excerpt “Controlled Rebellion” by Carli Frueh

But some of us saw past the smoke. We weren’t the loud ones, the ones slinging fists or spray cans under streetlights. Our rebellion simmered quieter, a slow ember glowing in the marrow, patient, waiting for the gust that would set **

it ablaze. It started in the shadows—those jagged corners of the projects where the rules bent, where reality flickered like a busted bulb. Lights hovered too low in the sky, silent and wrong, mocking the stars. **

Dreams clung like wet ash, heavy with faces we didn’t know, voices whispering truths we couldn’t unhear. Scars appeared—on my ankle, DeShawn’s wrist, Lena’s shoulder—marks no knife or fall could explain, souvenirs from a deeper fight we hadn’t yet named. **

We were the anomalies, the glitch…

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