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Weekly Contest #126
“I just don’t understand why you run away each year,” the tweeting voice of my Mother says from her kitchen in rural Pennsylvania. I can almost smell the burning biscottis she is taking out the oven. I wait a few moments to respond, imagining her phone (still with cord) handing on her shoulder as she swings the hot tray onto the island. “I am not running away, I am nurturing my soul,” I say, knowing full well how cringe worthy I sound. Mother isn’t listing anyway and the syllable of her next slew of words overlaps with my last. “If you are...
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