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Submitted to Contest #272
“Did you hear that?” Barbara Jones looked to her coworker, Mary, for confirmation of the noise she had heard. “It was a scream, wasn’t it? Didn’t you hear it?” “No, Barb,” Mary shook her head. “Then again, I can’t hear a thing over all these customers,” she said dull and sarcastic, looking around the barren shop. Barbara Jones had recently begun working at a post office on 63rd Street in Chicago, Illinois. Every now and then, she got a strange feeling about the place. Barb was always on edge, and since starting her job at the post offi...
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