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Weekly Contest #258
Trigger warning: death For my grandmother’s birthday, I gifted her a Polaroid photo of a horseshoe crab. It had washed up on the beach earlier that day, dead but intact, its sepia shell starting to cement itself under the wet sand. I tacked the photo up on her wall, next to her framed newspaper clipping of a warehouse fire. “Didn’t think to bring me the real thing?” She asked, setting down her magnifying glass on top of today’s obituaries. “You don’t want the smell, trust me.” I laughed. “Plus, it’s the best photo from this thin...
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