Malcolm Dutton

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“For the First and Final Time” by Malcolm Dutton

Submitted to Contest #236

The basement was dark, even with the lights on. Of course it was, the lights were old. In the whole time Alex had lived there, and the seven years after, her father had never changed them. They barely functioned, but they weren’t broken, so he didn’t change them out. The lights weren’t the oldest thing in the basement, just about all of her dad’s old junk was in here. Books on information years out of date, computers filled with software that hadn’t been useful in decades, and a dozen other types of old clutter. She hadn’t thought about cle...

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