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Weekly Contest #339
Serena Simmons’ hands shook as she put her tea kettle on the stove to boil. It was a familiar feeling by now. The shaking, shortness of breath, the nausea slowly creeping in. They were all symptoms of an awful disease that afflicted her once a month: her father was visiting. It had started 2 years ago, shortly after her dad got remarried. His new wife had 3 children and felt that her new husband should be a family man, so she pushed him to reconnect with his only child in a bid to have what she called ‘bonding time’. He had decided (with no...
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