Asha Naidu

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“The Price of Morning Coffee” by Asha Naidu

Submitted to Contest #226

My new regimen to be better prescribes a routine, a 5 a.m. alarm, and a cup of coffee. This is helping. I wake up, freezing, on top of the sheets (intentionally), and rush to the showers to make myself warm. Following the empty promise of the dark morning—no one to disturb and sheltered from reckoning with deadlines—I surrender to the fight. Ten pages of notes with half-understood equations, two papers, one overdue project. I dally in mental preparations for an hour, then head out to the bagel shop, ready to be caffeinated.I am served at hal...

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