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Submitted to Contest #274
ONLY CHILD (Note: This story involves themes of death, including children.) I was an only child. No siblings for me. Except for my sister, who lived in the drainage culvert behind the house where I grew up. The drainage culvert wasn’t much more than a giant, concrete-lined ditch at the base of the hill where my childhood home was built. Growing up in Southern California, the ground was so parched and dry that the first rain of the year didn’t do much more than run off the hard-packed dirt. Not that there was much dirt available to absorb wh...
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