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Submitted to Contest #326
The lights of Walmart flickered. Jars of preserves shuddered against one another as thunder cracked and rumbled off like a departing locomotive. Rain pelted the roof as though ten thousand cloggers tapped overhead. Shoppers uttered a collective moan as they realized the storm predicted for nine o’clock had marched ahead in quick time. Although he was still passing items across the scanner, Tony Calafiori pulled the hood over his thinning hair, his annoyance at the premature arrival of the deluge tempered by his gratitude at having dressed f...
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