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    The residents of a neighborhood were given a curfew during riots and hid in their home as attacks and looting occurred outside. As they waited in disbelief, a tendril of root from the burned market on the corner infiltrated a crack in their floorboards and began to grow. Though someone suggested killing the root before it got too strong, they let it grow while taking shelter from the violence occurring outside as seen by the soot and ash filling the windows instead of the usual sights and smells of the area.

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    The residents of a neighborhood were given a curfew during riots and hid in their home as attacks and looting occurred outside. As they waited in disbelief, a tendril of root from the burned market on the corner infiltrated a crack in their floorboards and began to grow. Though someone suggested killing the root before it got too strong, they let it grow while taking shelter from the violence occurring outside as seen by the soot and ash filling the windows instead of the usual sights and smells of the area.

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    The residents of a neighborhood were given a curfew during riots and hid in their home as attacks and looting occurred outside. As they waited in disbelief, a tendril of root from the burned market on the corner infiltrated a crack in their floorboards and began to grow. Though someone suggested killing the root before it got too strong, they let it grow while taking shelter from the violence occurring outside as seen by the soot and ash filling the windows instead of the usual sights and smells of the area.

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    The residents of a neighborhood were given a curfew during riots and hid in their home as attacks and looting occurred outside. As they waited in disbelief, a tendril of root from the burned market on the corner infiltrated a crack in their floorboards and began to grow. Though someone suggested killing the root before it got too strong, they let it grow while taking shelter from the violence occurring outside as seen by the soot and ash filling the windows instead of the usual sights and smells of the area.

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    ‘The Riots’

    BY RUBEN QUESADA
    We were given a curfew on the second day.
    Clouds filling windows were replaced by soot
    and ash from the burned out market on the corner.
    We lost the smell of buttered beetroot, Wissotzky tea
    and kishke; a tendril of root infiltrated a crack
    in the floorboards. We kept our distance and let it grow
    in disbelief. Someone said we should kill it
    before it gets too strong. Hours, maybe even days,
    went by as we hid waiting for attacks and looting
    to end. At times, when the door opened, a waft of wind
    made its way to those unfolding leaves
    waving like the curtains out of blown out windows.

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