Anne Dobbs

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“The Bell and the Bottle” by Anne Dobbs

Submitted to Contest #192

The Bell and the Bottle She always looked forward to hearing the bell tingle when she walked into the musty store. Full of the usual things, like croquet blankets forgotten by children who curled up in them. Chipped plates of small and large sizes used to serve hungry families who lived in perfect cookie-cutter houses encircled by white picket fences and freshly mowed grass. All the sad and lost things packed up in boxes and adopted out. She was, however, the adopter, searching for the most loneliness of all. The store had become he...

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