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Submitted to Contest #53
Letting The Kid had just climbed out of the pool. The last couple seconds weren’t there, he wasn’t entirely sure how he got out of the pool but he was making his way, conspicuously, past his stand and around the corner. The basketball game stopped. Concerned murmurs rose from the hot and busy water. The Kid was white, an oddity on this side of town, but his blue lifeguard shorts put his whiteness in its place. He rounded the corner into the bathroom, unprepared for the familiar tepid reek he winced. In front of the sink he looked. ...
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