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Submitted to Contest #225
There were a thousand things Kate could blame for being there. The bus happened to stop in Carlington, her tailbone hurt from sitting for so long, Vanessa’s bathroom mirror had shattered and they needed a new one to replace it. Later, when she recalled the memory of standing in front of The Little Shop of Mirrors, she would wonder why the bus stopped in Carlington at all. Why it left the freeway for a gas station town where no one seemed to live except truck drivers staying overnight and a few lizards beside the road. Why she, Kate, had wou...
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