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Weekly Contest #41
This lake was the sort that you brought to live out their childhoods, because didn’t your father do the same? And his father? It was an old lake, with old people and old stories, new coats of paint flaking off to show the colours beneath. Everyone from the nearby town also had a house on the lake. Folks checked in on each other, welcomed their neighbours, passive-aggressively drove out rowdy newcomers. Signs painted with the family name at the foot of gravel driveways, a thriving general store, community-wide events. But under the glassy wat...
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