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Submitted to Contest #301
The dryer beeps, letting me know the clothes are ready to be folded. It’s nearly nine at night and the house is silent. Unlike its normal state of chaos with the children destroying the façade of a tidy home. In this moment the silence is intoxicating but in the best of ways. I tip toe past my daughter’s room, afraid a single echo from a creaky floorboard might wake her. She never hears me when I’m shouting for her to wake up from across the hall, but she’d stir awake at the sudden flick of a light switch or click of a closing door several r...
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