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Weekly Contest #30
3:24 a.m. Strange but it’s the deafening sound of silence in my bedroom that wakes me. The TV’s gone off hours ago due to the sleep timer I set. The heater seems to have gone off as well; the temperature in the room has reached its setting. I live on a fifth floor, so the rush of cars outside is too distant, and the windows are too thick to really let any sounds in. Even my upstairs neighbors are quiet tonight. The usual game of musical chairs closed for the night. Everything is still. The silence almost an eerie vacuum to my ears. A though...
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