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Session #28

Submitted to Contest #291

To call Jeremy’s skin rosy is an insult to the flower–red splotches detonated across his face at the moment of emotional inception. Fear or embarrassment, joy or resentment, his chubby freckle-splatted cheeks reacted by transforming the boy into an overripe tomato. For the past eternity, he seemed fine, content to doodle with crayons on the backs of Sylvia’s double-spaced thesis drafts. Jeremy had been hard at work etching out a pond, two ducks and an oversized goldfish swimming blissfully on its surface. In the top left corner, he embellish...

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