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Submitted to Contest #133
There is a package sitting on my bed. I find it when I drop my bag on the floor after work, ready to go to the kitchen and wash my hands. Initially, I am a little annoyed. I don’t want a parcel from outside touching my quilt. Barb must have put it there, and I consider talking to her about it, but after the bath towel incident, I don’t want to bother her. On closer inspection the package does not have a shipping label, so maybe Barb wrapped it herself, in which case I don’t mind it being on my bed. Oh. My name is written on the brown pape...
Submitted to Contest #119
Mireya is eating dinner at her own house, but she’s still all over my room. Her purple backpack is leaning next to my blue one at the foot of my bed, next to the Sharpie signatures -- Mireya Hutton, Rowan Sullivan -- my mom let us leave on the Ikea frame, next to the two yellow water bottles that we keep getting mixed up. It’s dark outside, in that summer-evening way, only it’s late September. One of those weird fall days when it’s still annoyingly warm and I have to leave the window open, which I’ve done, letting the untied curtains flutte...
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