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Weekly Contest #227
Mr. Melancholy always gets sad at this time of year. He lives in the town of ‘Gum Drop Lane,’ where there is not a drop of sunlight from at least ten miles from there. The only seasons that the town experiences are Kerensa and Lucia, which means cold and freezing! This makes the town's citizens very crabby and short-tempered. And Mr. Melancholy is the grumpiest of all. On one dark and cold evening, Mr. Melancholy is walking up his wooden stairs, and he starts to hear a creak-creak-creak! “What can this be?” he says. “This house is as rotten...
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