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Gabrielle-Lyn Simmonds

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If I Could Reach the Other Side

Submitted to Contest #220

It’s so quiet it's almost creepy, but that's a dead country town for you. Not scared of ghosts, are you?I scoff. You know I don’t believe in any of that.Aw, you don’t believe in anything. I got another trick in me, that’ll show you.You would shuffle the deck in a delicate riffle, deft hands working a movement designed to please only me.How about it? Pick a card?My fingers, flushed red at the tips with winter’s bite, absent-mindedly trace the buttons of the camera. A polaroid, vintage. The one you found in the antiques store, and bought with ...

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