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Submitted to Contest #18
I was sifting through my attic for wearable warm clothes as the thin white layers of snow had started covering the roads, houses and cars. Amidst the dusty old cardboard boxes, I found an old book bound in surprisingly clean and dazzling red velvet. There was nothing written on the cover so I opened the book and discovered that it was a diary. Unlike the neat cover, the writing inside was rather peculiar and crooked. Each letter written by the author screamed apprehension and fear, written in dark black, seemingly with a charcoal pencil, it ...
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