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Submitted to Contest #25
A Year to Blossom – Fiction Sitting on a dented gray folding chair, holding a thick white folder, I look around at my apartment with its cheap aluminum blinds bent in every odd direction, a couch taken from a dumpster with so many holes I've covered it in a sheet to make it look nice... nicer, and a table so full of scratches you could make pictures out of them. I look at my hands covered in little circular scars, still pink and raw. I hear the soft snores of a child who hasn't slept so soundly in months because of fear. All of it is mine, f...
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