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Summer Time Is Through
Everybody started getting sick when they came. The town was filled with coughs and the last, wretched breaths of dying men and women. The children were spared. Nobody knew why, but as they watched their parents pass out from the pain and slowly succumb to the sickness, the children each felt a guilty sense of…
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The Sun Is Shining
Rebecca. Hey Rebecca, it’s your Dad. Why are you cooped up in there? I know you think you have to stay inside, but that’s silly. I’ve told you not to watch too much of that stuff. It’s making you paranoid. It’s a lovely day out here. The sun is shining. It’s so warm. Come outside,…
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I Will Always Be There
Dirty fingernails, devoted heart, beating through my wooden prison, as I call your name. I am cursed with this still, dull existence, but I still dream of you, haunted by your heartbreak, as I claw at all of our grey clouds. My beautiful, bedevilled girl, serving your own sentence. Us, two innocents, driven to mad…