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Submitted to Contest #53
I lounged listlessly on the canopy swing at the edge of the pool while Sammy, hanging on to the edge, spoke to me out of the water. I had already gone for a swim, dried off and changed. Now my hair was drying while I supervised Sammy. Not that he needed supervision – he had made the junior swim team – but there was no one else home and little else to do on this hundred-degree day. He was telling me of school escapades and friends and childish rumors. I nodded and hmm’d along, gradually losing awareness as the thick heat swaddled me and becam...
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