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Weekly Contest #263
My name is Gerald Taft. I'm told my vision is impaired. "Near-sighted," the doctor says, ever so detached. Something about the shape of my eye. I just call it bad vision. With my glasses on, no problems. The problem isn't what I see with my glasses. It's what I see without them.The first time it happened, I was twelve. I'd misplaced my glasses and was fumbling around my room, squinting at blurred shapes. From the corner of my eye, just inside my peripheral vision, something moved. That's when I saw Them. They looked like shadows but darker, ...
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