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Weekly Contest #71
~1000 Words Chocolate Dessert by Rain Burrows I’m eight, laying on the folded-down seats of my parent’s Volvo station wagon. My two younger brothers are next to me, head-toe-head like Lincoln in a log cabin. The Missouri River passes under us as we pass over the bridge and cross, mercifully, into Nebraska. I’m supposed to be asleep, I’m wide awake. Battered by duffle bags and loose books, it’s impossible to doze off. My “bunk” is hidden from the front row by a small CRT-TV/VHS player wedged between the driver’s and passenger’s seat on the fr...
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