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Weekly Contest #356
The Museum of Automata If it were not for the sudden downpour that interrupted my tour of Provence, I might never have entered The Museum of Automata, in that small sleepy town towards which I was riding on a spring morning, all sun and crisp breezes. Then, within a quarter of an hour, thunderheads gathered and the storm arrives. I lock my bicycle in the rain-shadow of a wall opposite the museum, scurry across the road, and buy my ticket, from a young woman with pale skin and wonky teeth, in a threadbare summer dress, patterned with tiny pa...
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