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Submitted to Contest #93
Wind weaves through the curtains, trips up paper cups, crushed candy on the coffee table, around which you tiptoe, treading the cigarette ashings of the unconscious and departed guests deep into the soft plum carpet. There was music - loud, thumping – now there is not. Now there is the soft puffing sound of the carpet under your feet. The soft puffing sound of the wind and the curtains. The soft puff and sizzle of the embers between my fingers that I can just see past the tip of my nose. Why do you clean? I whisper. You drift, the heels of y...
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