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Submitted to Contest #96
The empty bed was made with a downy duvet atop a sheet-stripped mattress. The only evidence that someone was ever here was either packed away in my myriad of suitcases or seesawing back and forth in a stew of water and suds in the laundry machine. Aside from the sheetless mattress, the guest room looked exactly as it did a month ago-- walls as white as fresh snow, marred only by a painting of an orchid opposite the door. A cracking wooden bedpost. A handkerchief, yellowed with age, stuffed carelessly in the nightstand on top of the worn bibl...
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