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Weekly Contest #356
After the wedding, Teresa and Erick went for a walk. Old willows stood sentinel, their boughs swaying gently, spilling fragmented shadows across cobblestones that gleamed faintly in the moonlight. Erick held out a pocket watch. “This belonged to my great-grandfather. When I was a kid, he’d say that it held the heartbeat of the universe.” He paused. “He was a poet, not a scientist.” "Does it still keep time?" she asked. “In a fashion,” Erick answered. He flipped open the stopwatch and an ethereal orange-pink light illuminated the area around ...
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