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Weekly Contest #91
The library book sat quietly among my rations, a silent passenger in the new world. All the same, it screamed at me. I tried to gently remind myself that no one could possibly care if the book went overdue, because there was no one left alive to care. Such norms had died out with humanity. That proved a futile effort when I was immediately struck by the obvious retort. I was alive. I would care. Introspection didn't help. Although I was perfectly comfortable scavenging from the carrion of pharmacies and supermarkets, the book had somehow mor...
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