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Nineteen crates

Pen-and-wash illustration of nineteen milk crates stacked behind a garden shed with nettles and a bike

Behind the shed there were nineteen milk crates. Nobody knew whose they were. Nobody had ever asked. And nineteen, if you think about it, is quite a lot of crates.

Nineteen milk crates nobody could explain, stacked where no adult ever looked. Every single one of them was about to leave the ground.

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