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Twilight

Submitted to Contest #38

The incomprehensible words danced on the screen, separating into floating black squiggles as my eyes began to cross. I blinked quickly to refocus on the words. Would my students ever stop trying to impress me with graduate-school-sized words and sentences instead of clear and readable writing? I shook my head and tried, for the third time, to understand the paragraph-long sentence.I heard a very loud, very unusual sound and turned rapidly to face the sliding glass door. It was twilight and I could see the deepening blue skies with the snow-c...

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