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Submitted to Contest #289
The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here. Walls painfully white with cream carpeted floors; a lone seascape on the far wall is likely meant to be comforting, but to me evokes only the mystery, the great black unknown depths. And whatever monsters lurk there. The ocean. Have I seen the ocean? I can’t pinpoint a specific experience, but I know what the ocean is like. I know what it’s like to squish wet sand between your toes, surf encircling your ankles, while the sun does its best work creating new freckles on your already st...
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