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Submitted to Contest #258
It was gone. All gone. How does a fire move that fast? Abby nudged an ash-covered table leg with her dusty sneaker. Or maybe it was a chair leg. Or a frame. It was hard to tell. Where her apartment building once stood was a charred pile of barely-recognizable pieces of lives that had now been turned upside down. She looked at the rest of neighborhood and saw that a few other buildings had been consumed by the flames. Some cars, too. Fire is a hungry beast. Abby didn't need a car to get around: she could take the bus or get a ride with her ro...
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