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Weekly Contest #43
Dear reader, I wish I could tell you that it ends well. It doesn’t. Let me put it this way. Had I known at the start of August what would happen, I would have gone off to summer camp or stayed indoors, not daring to go outside. I would’ve stayed home, where it was safe and there weren’t murderous lightning storms raging outside, ready to strike the nearest person who was dumb enough to be out that day. I was that idiot, by the way. Walking through Lincoln Park, it really didn’t seem so bad. I’d just landed in West Seattle, hoping...
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