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Submitted to Contest #230
I stand on front stage, the blackest of canvasses, awaiting a spotlight to illuminate my bald head, the blankest of canvasses. When this light hits I am to boom the opening lines of Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities” which I have the privilege of the part of narrator. The crowd appear as shapeless, black husks; no faces are discernible as I scour desperately for assurance from the audience and my anxiety to speak my first line pervades through my better nature. In this moment of trepidation I cast my mind back to the past, to my first perf...
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