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Title: Underneath
Prompt: Christmas lights in a jar, 19th Feb 2012
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 ropes of Christmas lights.
Somewhere along the line, a faulty 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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