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Weekly Contest #355
The message arrived just after dinner. "She’s in critical condition. It’s only a matter of hours now." It sat there in the family group chat beneath old forwarded prayers and blurry photographs of someone’s grandson graduating. Nobody replied for several minutes. The blank space under the message began to feel embarrassing. I stared at the screen longer than necessary, waiting for grief to arrive properly. It didn’t. I pitied the old woman, that was different from sorrow. By the time I reached the house, her house stood at the edge of the lo...
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