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Submitted to Contest #221
There’s something wrong with the house. It was fine at first. The roof tiling cracked. We had it repaired, but it still leaks whenever the weather is bad. There’s mold growing near the front door that nobody ever uses. The floor creaks and shifts and the paint is peeling from the walls, from the roof. The carpet has been torn off the floor in my childhood bedroom and you can still see the sticky residue from where my old artwork was stuck on the walls. When I lay in bed at night, I can hear the faint drip-drip-drip of the taps. My room is r...
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