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Weekly Contest #234
It was barely dawn when I came into the kitchen. Dad was standing at the screen door, still dressed in his dark suit and houndstooth tie Mom gave him on his last birthday. Even his shoes were still on from the night before. The jacket’s shoulders sagged, and his trousers pooled around his slender frame, but he hadn’t bothered to change."Can I make you some tea, Dad?""Where's your mother? She said she was going into town this morning, and I told her I'd go with her. She wouldn't go without me." He pushed the door open a crack, just enough to ...
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