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Submitted to Contest #85
The room was full of useless objects: dusty and scabrous racks, secular books with modern covers, a rotten apple at the varnished table, an unsorted pile of papers. The air was slowly flowing from one corner to another, marking every drop of wine on the floor. The setting sun was radiographing through the bobbinet, leaving thin stripes of light on everything she has once touched. The woman took the envelope out of the box, smoothed the small mark in the right top corner with her red nails, and smiled faintly. She hasn’t been reading them...
Submitted to Contest #79
1920 On an unusually sunny autumn day in an old house at the central district of Paris, Lilya Andropova realized that she needed to get used to her life being a joke to God. She stood by an open window, light white curtains blowing at her face, escaping her figure and trying to flee to the outside world. The city underneath her feet was already waking to meet another day of music, art and Parisian love. She wouldn’t get any of it – wouldn’t allow herself to. At least, she knew the reason why she would never be welcomed at any of th...
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