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Submitted to Contest #243
We live forgotten in our own worlds, full of despair, lacking a purpose. Some take the form of online drafts; others live discarded in trash bins, crinkled and covered in smudged pencil lead. For one reason or another, our authors abandoned us. No one is to blame exactly. Inspiration strikes, new ideas—better ideas—come along, and our stories are cast aside. We simply weren’t good enough. None of us was the cutting-edge story that would make the New York Times Best Seller list. Of course, a lot of the younger drafts still hold onto...
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