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Submitted to Contest #338
The double doors of the grocery store doors slid open at 9:41 p.m. As Lisa walked inside, a whiff of cold air borne with a faint smell of citrus and dampness spilled. At once, Lisa immediately felt that she had arrived too late for something. She couldn’t have known what. Only that the air seemed heavy, like the store had been waiting for her. Fluorescent lights hummed from the ceiling. There was once that flickered near the main entrance, stuttering like a bad memory. Tiles were the same off white they had always been. Years of cleaning c...
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