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Weekly Contest #343
She had the option to be sick. Snug in her bed, cocooned safely within her blankets, Laura’s mind travelled across and through each part her body looking, searching, seeking an ache, a pain, a fever, a problem, a reason, a . . . justification to stay in bed. Justification. It was a new word. You don’t have to go, her dad had said, you would be justified, if you didn’t want to. But if you skip today, her mother’s voice came into her head, will you try to avoid all the other days like this? So, she got out of bed, not because she was certai...
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