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Weekly Contest #218
THE LILAC DOOR Whoosh. A small whoosh, really, as air is dispersed when a closed door opens and someone enters, quietly, stealthily. Then, click. Click as the doorknob lock button secures its home into the waiting face plate. I never wanted that lilac door to open, never—except when my parents were home. Even then, though, my brother would take my goldfish out of its bowl and put it under the stool cover of my miniature play-piano—and the smell of dead fish would permeate my room. And, too, there was ...
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