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Weekly Contest #300
There was a house once, at the bend where Bonewater Creek almost touched the road, but never did. It’s sort of unassuming, and I assume the boring white peeling paint and greasy windows have something to do with the reason the cars drive by without any interest. There are bones beneath its floorboards. You’d miss it if you blinked between mile markers 17 and 18, but if you didn’t blink, and if you were the right kind of broken, you’d see it. I saw it. They said it burned down in ‘86. Arson, they whispered, though who’d want to torch a house ...
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