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Submitted to Contest #51
Claude opened her eyes to a paved square in shades of green and gray, but she didn’t recognize the place. It wasn’t the housing complex of her childhood in Congo—the beige wooden-homes intact before the conflicts started. It wasn’t the wide backyard facing the sea she shared with the other twenty people after her family had arrived in Brazil asking for asylum either. She tried to find the narrow alley packed with brick houses she was living in now, but she couldn’t. For instance, it wasn’t any of the places she had been before, so she stoppe...
World traveler and writer of women's fiction. More on the IG @30ontheroad.
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