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Weekly Contest #42
The cleanliness is what gets you. More so than the silence, or the stillness, or the emptiness. It’s the cleanliness that jars. There’s an unnerving dissonance in this place of white floor, red and yellow walls, squeaky clean chairs that don’t squeak anymore when they twist like reeds by a river. So calm and clean.And the smell! It’s gone! Bigger somehow in its absence. Like how the small noises are bigger in the silence. Like when an airplane rumbles overhead and everyone, all three of you jumps, looks up out the windows and stares, as if a...
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