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Submitted to Contest #240
A modern-day tumbleweed in this world of litter, a crumpled white ball rolled up next to my foot. The wind was stronger today than usual for this time of year. Reluctantly, I picked it up. Stiff, my arthritic fingers hurt all the way down to gnarled bones under bulging veins. The skin on them like plastic wrap covering blue lines. I was told yesterday that I don’t look my age. I don’t think he saw my hands. They look twenty years older than my face. For that matter, he must have overlooked the Elvira strea...
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