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Submitted to Contest #196
I was raised on the idea that good things happened to good people and only the bad things happened to bad people. The “Just World Phenomenon” and whatnot. I went to church, said my prayers, committed good deeds, just like my mother taught me. I always thought I was a good man. So why did it happen to me? It all happened one night working at the office. It had been hours sitting at my cubicle, staring at the dull blue light of my desktop entering data in spreadsheets. I was just listlessly moving the cursor to the submit button for the da...
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