Yesterday
Novelette 9,606 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Yesterday, I didn’t care much about much. Back then, there hadn’t been any cars in the parking lot. We didn’t see any muddy footprints stamped into the dirt. Not even the hoofprint exclamations of deer. The weather was partly to blame, but really people stopped visiting the forest once the trees started talking."
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deathracismviolence
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