Aileen Wilcox

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“The Essence of Things” by Aileen Wilcox

Submitted to Contest #185

We were arguing again. It was the same song and dance that we did at least once a year for the past five years. Nothing ever changed. We went in circles, rehashing every statement and revisiting every debate we’d ever had. “You don’t need these things!” Evan’s voice rose, and he shook a handful of papers towards me.  Those particular papers were a mixture: letters, old school assignments, brochures from events I’d gone to. Evan repeated what most everyone thought—that I didn’t need the things I carefully saved over the years.  O...

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