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Submitted to Contest #239
Jake hit the “alarm off” button blearily and got out of bed. It was 6am. He put on a t-shirt and went downstairs, yawning and sighing as he went into the kitchen. He opened the curtains and looked through the window. It was still mostly dark, the dawn almost breaking. He could see the garden through the window, but it was dark enough that he could also see his reflection in the glass. A strange melding of the two images, so that his own reflection seemed to be superimposed on the shadowy, grayscale image of the lawn and garden path. As he mo...
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