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Picture 2
Alby Mangroves's Choice: Picture 2
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Winter chill creeps like icy fingers through floorboards in Bella’s room.
She doesn’t mind the cold; it’s familiar.
Charlie’s valiant attempt at putting on a modest Christmas is wasted on her, but Bella goes along with the tree and the food, even checking the rope of blinking Christmas lights.
Somewhere, a faulty little bulb stops all the others from glowing.
Bella knows how it feels.
Sometimes you’ve got no glow left in you.
Below her knees, September’s echo lies undiscovered, sandwiched in a narrow wooden tomb under the floorboards.
Love lies hidden, trapped in purgatory just like the ghost himself.
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