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Submitted to Contest #330
October arrived the way it always did: in the conversations of others.At the coffee shop, two women discussed the sudden need for scarves. The barista drew leaf patterns in foam while explaining the return of the cinnamon blend. Outside, someone dragged a ladder toward a storefront, orange garlands spilling from a cardboard box at their feet.Alice watched it all through the window, her fingers wrapped around a cup that could have been filled with anything. The warmth against her palms registered as data, nothing more. Temperature without mea...
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Reagan Theriault stepped back from her easel, paintbrush tucked between her lips, studying the swirl of blacks and greens on the canvas. To others, it was just another ode to mold—but to her, it was beauty. She leaned in, adding a hint of iridescence with a fine brush dipped in cobalt teal and titanium white. Her studio smelled of oil paint and damp earth, kept at 78% humidity for what she called “atmospheric authenticity”—awful for electronics, perfect for art.Reagan had always gravitated toward the overlooked. As a child, she collected dea...
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