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Submitted to Contest #307
It began as a rumor.The kind that crawls through a school like a slow, whispered secret, half-truth, half-joke, told by seniors to freshmen on late, nervous orientation nights. The kind of story that thrives in the shadowed corners of hallways and locker rooms.They said beneath our school gym lay a forgotten swimming pool, sealed off, buried beneath layers of concrete and silence. It was said the pool was haunted, cursed even, because decades ago, a swimmer named Eli Mercer, heartbroken after losing a massive competition, had drowned herself...
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