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Weekly Contest #300
Only one.Before the world grew heavy, before the days thickened into silence, Emily and I sat on one bed sharing a vision. In the empty afternoons after the school bell’s ring had long dissipated, we would lie on the plush pillows, hands clasped and staring at the ceiling until the lines in the plaster rearranged themselves into forests, dead cities and anything we wanted. We learned early a fact that most don’t ever learn. Boredom was a kind of doorway to your subconscious. If you sat still – oh so perfectly still – you could hear the walls...
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