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Ladybugs

Submitted to Contest #34

She traced the droplets with her finger, imagined them on her skin. She imagined them like ladybugs perching on the flesh of her fingertips, on the hardness of her nails, dripping like falling ladybugs from the tips of her fingers and onto the floor. If they were ladybugs they would catch the air before they hit, and be aloft, and bring themselves to secret spaces, up and away, to do secret ladybug things with the other escaped raindrop bugs. If they were droplets they would slip and splash onto the wood floor; if there were enough they woul...

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