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Weekly Contest #358
The recorder button engaged with a metallic click. The cassette reel began to spin, pulling the magnetic tape beneath the device’s red light. Road dust drifted through the window cracks and settled over my notebooks, coating the phonetic transcriptions. Esther coughed. The dry sound scraped her throat and echoed through the room, blending with the steady rattle of wind against the corrugated zinc roof. She raised the aluminum mug to her lips, took a sip of water, and resumed her story.Cold water—that’s how I would log the entry later in my f...
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