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Weekly Contest #215
The creak of the door as it closes seeps through his skin into his flesh. The muffled but strong touch of the metal latch – a mechanism meant to conceal, to protect – shakes him. For a moment, he saw his hand gripping the round copper handle tightly, which he had touched so many times, trying to reduce the noise caused by the rotation of the hinges and the sudden locking of the door with blue stained glass. Behind that door was home. But this sound was deafening, hardly protective, and the paint flaked off from the solid wood, its magnitud...
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