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Submitted to Contest #334
In a land far, far away…. What a Joke. Humans have come to need distance to feel safe. I think as I walk down one of their busy streets, watching. If something is far, far away it can’t reach out and touch you. If it was a long time ago, well, it can’t still be watching, can it? So, they take something that scares them and sanitize it with distance and time to make it small and safe.But the thing is, I live among them. I walk their streets and shop in their stores. I stand in the same lines they stand in, building in their small ritual comfo...
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