T T

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“The Squatter in Southside Sunrise” by T T

Submitted to Contest #148

For a week, I thought I’d been crying in my sleep. Every morning I awoke with a tear stained face and a damp pillow. On the fourth day, the leak revealed itself like a dripping wound. I found a trickle of water bouncing on my pillow and called Douglas, my scrimping landlord who attempted to be his own handyman. At the cost of sleeping on the couch for a night, he patched up the ceiling as best as he could with cardboard and drywall. Another week flew by and the ceiling took on a shape. A belly formed above my bed where water had sunk in. No...

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