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Submitted to Contest #283
Sensitive themes: grief, loss. Kieran almost didn’t notice the new Christmas lights beneath the pallor of snow, but they twinkled all the same from where they adorned the bookshop sign. The previous shift manager must have strung them up. The thought slightly irritated him. Kieran was no Scrooge, but there certainly was something as too much holiday spirit, too much insistence that this be the most wonderful time of the year. Decorating the soggy, shivering streets as if it could distract from the cold. Searching for joy in a joyless season....
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