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Weekly Contest #77
“What,” he asks and lifts his eyes from his acoustic guitar, realizing I had been staring at him for the last five minutes while he strummed a tune on his guitar. For a second I didn’t realize he said anything, until he repeated the question with an accompanying sharp snap of his fingers. “Nothing,” I mumble and avert my eyes to the several classic horror movie posters in his room. I realized that when teachers asked him who his idol was, he probably said John Carpenter or Alfred Hitchcock rather than the usual response of my dad or my mom...
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