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Submitted to Contest #105
Tick - Tock! Tick - Tock! Tick - Tock!The rhythmic sound was the only thing that disturbed the unsettling silence. But even it tended to fade away in the space of the living room, as if attempting to hide behind the sofa and the chairs, under the rack, over the window, behind the curtains…I was getting distracted. The bluish laptop screen had worn out my eyes, the eyelids closing on top of them in an attempt to make me fall asleep. I would suddenly open them, my face towards the window on the right of me, realising that I had tried to take a...
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