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Submitted to Contest #47
You go to turn the key, first a quarter turn, then a full turn to the right. It sticks as always. This one’s always been tricky. The mailbox door creaks open and you wonder to yourself, as you always do, just how a space that small becomes so cavernous when empty. It’s like the mailbox eats up all your hopeful expectations and leaves a little, square-shaped black hole in its place, and you wonder: why even have hopeful expectations? Are the weekly grocery ads so much of a turn on? Is this what quarantining yourself away has done for your...
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