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Submitted to Contest #9
The beach was vacant. The sand, bare of footprints. The water, cold from isolation.Calvin stroked the knobs protruding from his steel-framed typewriter. Slowly, he pressed his frail fingers against the row of six weighted keys. Click. Click.Click-click-click-click. Click. He prepared for the next sentence. Calvin paused while simultaneously holding down two of the keys. He released a deep sigh. His mind was drowning in thoughts of his words no longer being accepted. What if his manuscript didn’t read the same? What if he’d lost his desc...
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