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Submitted to Contest #53
The child’s dark hair clung to her face in damp strings that she ineffectively but repeatedly tried to push out of her eyes with dimpled hands spread like starfish. Her mother had been wetting her head with water from the kitchen sink in an attempt to keep her cool. The window AC unit in the apartment was broken and the absence of it’s hum meant that they could hear the TV their neighbor kept on continuously. Mama kept every light off and all the blinds closed to keep out the heat. She stood in front of the closed fridge, tapping her fo...
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