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Weekly Contest #348
I open my eyes. I am lying in a bed, with a puffy patchwork quilt and tissue-thin sheets pulled up to my chin. Two windows on the wall render the sky a flat, dull shade of blue. Pink curtains lay flush against the violet wallpaper, whose paisley pattern shrinks away into the shadows of the dim corners. Against one wall rests a petite nightstand; on the other, a lavender-colored boudoir, doors ajar, big enough to walk inside. Within, I spy the silver glint of a mirror. I sit up, the bedspread falling to my lap, and find myself wearing a s...
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“This one.” Nathan fished a glossy photograph out from the neat lineup spread across the plastic tablecloth. He held it up to face the stout, gray-haired vendor counting the bills in her change-box. “What’s this supposed to be?”“That one?” She hesitated, her wrinkled lips opening and closing ever so slightly. The farmers’ market hubbub—vendors gossiping with their regulars, farmers hawking their late-summer squash, toddlers begging for ice cream—covered over her gravelly Southern drawl. Here, everyone knew everyone…except Nathan had never se...
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