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9/11

Normally, I don't participate in Weekly Challenges. So I wrote this story for the weekly challenge on time travel and I'm posting it now.

Once the time engine was charged, I went back to the subway platform under the towers and looked for my parents.

They were trapped in the rubble, broken gas lines breathing fire all around, but I worked feverishly to free them.

Too much concrete. Too much metal.

Looking at my bloody hands, I realize I should have brought gloves.

The fire was coming closer, and they told me to leave them.

I held their hands for as long as I could, and I left them photos of their grandchildren before heading back to the engine.

We do this every year.

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