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Submitted to Contest #165
The endless winter after my parents died, our sleepy village received a new music teacher, a small, unthreatening woman who did not portend strange happenings. I was living with my aunt Adela at the time in her small apartment overlooking the town square, occupying the second floor of a white-shuttered colonial house with a black stove-top pipe for coal smoke in the winter and a rusty balcony that grew heavy with a great shaggy beard of icicles the first snowfall. The apartment was colder than my parents’ house, more cramped, filled with dus...
Submitted to Contest #158
The lights of the Montclair Holiday Resort loomed wistful and gray in an unseasonably cold rain for that time of September. All throughout the wooded valley and the surrounding lake district, the same dull flat drab bank of clouds crouched low and stubborn between earth and sky. Beaches that formerly flocked with screaming families and smoking barbecues in summer months now stood empty, and the blue waters that rose in arcs with speedboats and the plop of a fisherman’s lure now sat silver...
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