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Corinne Benson

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What I did when time stood still

Submitted to Contest #297

What I did when time stood still Remarkably, I’d spent four days working on it, but if you’d told me it had been anywhere between four days and four months, I could have believed you. I’d become so immersed in my work and without the usual daily rhythms dictated by a busy family life, eating when I was hungry rather than at defined intervals, and sleeping only when my body demanded, time became mercifully muted and irrelevant. In retrospect, I know there must have been a deeper part of my subconscious that was keeping me on track to finish ...

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