He Didn’t Burn

The fire consumed him

Corbin
Literally Literary
Published in
2 min readMar 15, 2020

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The fire consumed him, but the boy wouldn’t burn.

The floor beneath contorted to eventually cave into a black mess of ruined wood — the personality of a children’s bedroom collapsing into flames.

His Teddy burned. Little cars melted. But not him, no.

He didn’t burn.

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