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Submitted to Contest #321
The sunflowers on our kitchen table were two months dead. Their shriveled heads drooped over the lip of the vase, bowing towards the floor like veteran soldiers that could no longer find a reason to smile. There were about a dozen of them, standing grimly in a pool of clouded water, and mold had crept up their stems, into the folds of their crinkled leaves like ancient cobwebs on a long lost watchtower.They’d looked like that a long time, withered and putrid and darker than sunflowers ever deserved to be, and yet nobody had wanted to throw t...
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