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Weekly Contest #58
They were always talking. They almost never yelled but they always talked. They sat at the kitchen table and talked in such calm, precise tones that Mary could practically feel the ice in their meaning sliding unhindered across her face. She could taste the distance between them that grew every time they talked. It would have been better, she thought, if they were shouting at each other. At least when they were loud there was fire, there was feeling, there was desire for change. This cold numbness that had suffused them was worse than any...
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