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Weekly Contest #310
The Steps I sit on the steps, with my head against the door. Someone in an apartment above me is watering their plants; I watch the overspilling drops create a pool at my feet and think back on what led me here, to be sitting outside my own apartment, hoping that someone will open the door. With no phone, and no money, all I can do is sit there and wallow in my misery, reliving every awful moment. My bag had been stolen in an instant. I had put it down while I ate my lunch and then I had seen a dog, and then I filled my water canteen, and th...
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