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Submitted to Contest #308
Until I was around 12 years old, I had always believed that weathermen controlled the weather. In retrospect, although it made sense for someone in elementary school to believe in superstitions like this, the fact that I had until I was in the 7th grade baffles me. If it hadn't been for my mother, I would’ve been cursing Dick Goddard right up until he retired; but I don’t think I would’ve watched the weather for that long anyway, and it was not like I did either when I was in middle school. It was at that cold, aromatic bazaar down in Kings...
Submitted to Contest #297
I write this narrative to supplement the speculations of the so-called “Sugar-Woman” that have been wafting through this region of the state, and to affirm that the reports are true, which should be astonishingly clear by the mere traces of these words, as I have no greater abhorrence than the practice of writing, rendering me the quietest of the hermits in the neighborhood. With that said, it is no surprise that I am not familiar to most who might read this passage, which is written by me, Arnold Clemons.I take the time to emphasize this pe...
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