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Submitted to Contest #194
Another sleepless night in Beverly Hills, California. Don stared up vertically, his eyes fixed on a pigmented water stain on the ceiling that had been there for the last few years. The thick, cream curtains in his bedroom were split apart to reveal the ascending sun. Warmth from the sun radiated all throughout Don’s body, which momentarily distracted him from the question that he had asked himself all night: Why me? Out of the window, Don watched a couple of black-chinned hummingbirds hover in mid-air, flapping their wings in rapid successio...
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