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Submitted to Contest #282
6/14, 6/14I.The house is empty again. Everything is static, and I’m disappointed.Because if the cut-outs of bowls on the kitchen countertop started to move, it would prove that there is actually some real ghost haunting me these days, some real thing clenching my heart every time I hear the cicadas screech outside.The truth is I am afraid of summer.I am a coward.The piano bench creaks. I lodge my elbows onto the piano I hadn’t played in a year or two. In the reflection of the waxed wood I see my face. Then I look directly into the reflection...
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