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Enrico Hallworth

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The Tramp and the Baby

Enrico Hallworth

Submitted to Contest #52

I sit and watch the trolleys rattlin their chains in the wind. The snow’s comin heavy enough to bury them and in another ten minutes they won’t be rattlin nothin. It ain’t fallin, it’s comin from every direction, whipped up and driven sideways by the wind ’til the air’s just full of it. I watch it roar around through the big shop windows as I sit under the electric hum of the strip lightin and dust off my fourth box of coco pops. I never known why supermarkets leave their lights on all night. I wish they left the heatin on too. I g...

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