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Weekly Contest #302
This short story will have mentions of war and potential derogatory language.I sneak a look at Sawyer Thompson from across the room, where he polishes the apple Nurse gave him with his grey cloth handkerchief. In the bed next to me, Brendon is watching eagerly, waiting for the same thing I am. Sawyer does this same routine every day; he scrubs his red apple until it shines under the ward’s stifling white lights, then keeps polishing it with such vigour that he eventually drops it. The apple tumbles off the creased linen blankets covering Saw...
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