Ayesha Malik

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“emergency absence today” by Ayesha Malik

Submitted to Contest #249

A podcast plays through Adil’s earphones. He is oblivious to the host’s words. The cadence of their voice anchors his frantic heart in his chest.He is running late to a meeting at his economics internship. Everything is going wrong this morning, but it was doomed from the start of the summer. Last night he tossed and turned on his air mattress, fretting over his dysfunctional code. His data analysis was spitting out nonsensical results, and the figures kept coming out warped, no matter what he did. He ...

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