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Submitted to Contest #328
The porch is dark. It’s no surprise, really, because the sun had set a million hours ago and most people had retired to bed. There’s an occasional car that passes by on the road out front, but it’s nothing like the usual daylight traffic. She wonders where they’re going— what their own excuses for being awake are. Predictably, none of the cars stop to answer. So, the porch is dark. She could turn the lights on, could bathe the little white rails in a fake orange glow. She could illuminate the world that exists ten feet outside of her house,...
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