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Milind Kumar Vaddiraju

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Milind Kumar Vaddiraju

Submitted to Contest #103

1984. Mother. Republic. Interpreting Dreams. Wild Swans. A Farewell to Arms. Immortality. The Great Derangement. Meditations. Divergent. Politics. 1984- I bite my lip, scanning the odd assortment of books stacked to my left repeatedly, frantically counting. Eleven. Perfect. An odd number. A prime number even. With repeated digits at that! How propitious, I think with a vague sense of amusement. I reach out carefully, resting my fingertips atop Orwell’s dystopian nightmare, gently inching it closer to the edge, stopping just before it tips ov...

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