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John Martin Tilley

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I Don't Believe Dinah, My Slippers Are Ruined

Submitted to Contest #60

“How droll,” I say to myself as I look out through the bay window before my desk, “More crumblies.” I’ve just been consulting the cards, more out of boredom than out of real curiosity, and I’ve drawn the Wish Card again — a confounding card to draw in this day and age. ‘One of the most positive cards in the deck,’ my witchy little tarot psalter reads, a gift from my mother who told me to guard it with my life, though she’d become a bit of a drama queen ever since the war had started. ‘Anything your heart desires shall be yours.’ Positiv...

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