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Submitted to Contest #66
She is walking along the corridor between the church and her room in the convent when she hears someone yell, “Run for cover motherfucker!” It’s not the command that alarms her—nothing so exciting ever happens to her—but rather the voice carrying those profane words: it is childlike. Sweet, even. She stops at a window, and keeping herself out of sight, peers carefully outside. Across the street, in the parking lot of the old parochial school, is a boy with his back to her. He crouches behind an improvised snowbank, his bare hands hurriedly p...
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