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Submitted to Contest #240
A warm cuppa, a chair with the right amount of bounce, and working from home never dissipated the knife wound in my lower abdomen. The pain had long gone, but the cold steel ghost haunted my muscles each time a car drove by my isolated house in the country.The last motor, a half-hour ago, caught me by surprise. Lost in my job, it whizzed by my attention as if it popped out of a patch of mist from another world. Shook my momentum. The wind bending every tree in the back garden and the woods beyond obscured its engine. Today, I planned on step...
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