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Maryanne Carey

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The Walk Home

Submitted to Contest #260

The Walk Home “Greetings and salutations, faithful reader, allow me to introduce myself. I will begin by saying that most people, and I’m sure you’re one of them, know the story of the very curious earth-goddess Pandora, and how she unleashed all the evils and miseries of the world by opening a forbidden box. I’m part of the story as well. My name is Elpis, which means hope and, at the very least, expectations. I did not escape from the chest, and so I can still speak softly to those who wish to hear. I try to be there as a beam of optimism ...

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