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Weekly Contest #262
Trigger warning: This story involves a character who died from overdose. Heather lived most of her adult life in Japan, so she wasn’t overly fazed by the summer heat and crowds of early August. She simply approached the crosswalk as she did any time of year through her daily commute and pulled out her phone to multitask while she waited, albeit inwardly more miserably. Half-heartedly, the foreign language teacher jotted down notes for her next secondary school lesson plan on her phone. The idea came increasingly quickly: Obon is the ...
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