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Weekly Contest #308
After it happened, I expected the world to stop turning. I expected the sky to go dark, the moon to crash into the earth, the birds to go silent, the wind to no longer blow through the trees. I expected it, because that's what should have happened. If the very earth that created her had any level of care or reverence for my mother, it should have shown something. It should have gone dark. The sun should have been swallowed up by the sheer darkness that was my world after she was gone.She was my rock, and I was just the layer of soil and gras...
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