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Submitted to Contest #300
Sadness causes a tightness in my chest as I enter the building my grandparents used to call home. Boxes fill the living room, each one a casket full of lives lived, ready to be packed into the moving truck and shoved away in a dark storage container. I look to the alcove behind where the couches used to be and for a moment I see a small boy playing an old Star Wars game on a computer that is normally only used to very meticulously check church emails. The moment doesn’t last long, and the alcove returns to its bare state, the outline of the ...
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