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Weekly Contest #30
The colorful rooftops of the downtown houses were best viewed from the alleyways behind them. I noticed that each one had its own distinguishing features: gables here; latticework there; fire escapes never before used and rusting against all regulations; fold-out chairs and portable grills too close to slanted decks, begging to prompt the use of the fire escapes; ivy running from the old hard ground all the way up to antennae, cockeyed against an overcast sky. The windows, too, seemed to develop personalit...
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