Kelly Sagert

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“Digging Deep” by Kelly Sagert

Submitted to Contest #29

I’ve been living with Uncle Reggie and Auntie Sal for about six weeks now and, even though I don’t like it when the windows shake from the bombing in the city or when the wind shifts and I smell gunpowder, I’m not waking up at night as much anymore. Uncle Reggie says that, now that I’m not in North London, I’m safe, and he tells me not to worry about the blackout curtains, either. We just do it, he says, because the ARP warden tells us it’s the law. Now that I’ve turned eleven, I’m old enough to help out, so this morning I started digging in...

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