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D.A.C. Beckham

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Letter to the Owner of 11389 Gopherwood Street

Submitted to Contest #265

I’m writing you from the Riverside jail, Presley detention center. I’m writing you to ask your forgiveness for trespassing on your property to retrieve an old manuscript my dad wrote some time back before his untimely end in the mid 1990s. My family always told me it was placed by him in your duplex’s attic space, where we lived with Dave and Clarence from 1985 to 1996. I went there to the duplex on Gopherwood street in La Cosa in Riverside this past week and it looked like it always had since I left; dilapidated and, frankly, haunted.&...

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