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Submitted to Contest #58
There I was, sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, kicking Evan's butt in the middle of a massive multiplayer match, when everything went dark. My big sister Julie let out a typical groan from her room down the hall. It was the usual groan she gave when nothing was going her way. It was the usual groan of a 16-year-old girl who's treated like a princess by my stepdad Cliff. She was probably in the middle of taking her millionth selfie or shooting some lame TikTok video lip-sync masterpiece. We've had power outages before. Since we m...
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