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Weekly Contest #296
Bad times these. The terror has turned the world grey. The sounds of marching boots, rifles clicking, men shouting. My own blue eyes don’t shine in the mirror as I wash my face. They are cold, tired, and wasted on this current world. This war has forced me to pretend to be something I am not. German. Whatever blood my mother brought into our family that gave us blue eyes, I’ll never know, but for now I am grateful. We aren’t watched as we walk down the street. They are too ignorant to understand. We hide amongst them, Jews in German clothing...
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