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Weekly Contest #38
It was unassuming, but that was its hateful trick. While it sat there, a lifeless observer, it gnawed at him. Intolerable thing. He had bought it at a street market about seven years previously. A spur of the moment purchase - the type of transaction that he was shamefully prone to. He had spied it on the rickety wooden stall and in an instant knew that he had to have it. It was impractical, he knew. He didn’t need it. He had no particular reason to want it. God knows, when inevitably asked by his fiancé, he would not be able to form an adeq...
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