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Ben Clews

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Chicken Necks

Submitted to Contest #290

CHICKEN NECKS Boarding the bus after work to cross the lake home. Thankful for that, very, the day done. Up the aisle towards a vacant seat, flop into it. And my mind’s eye asked who it was two seats back? Yep, Christy. Oh Jesus, Christy. And so it became what I had to do. I had not seen her since high school. No, wrong, there was a night at the pub. When she should not have been there. The ultimate in bad timing. Remarkable timing. You see, Sinead had come to town to see me. I had been unwell from travel in Asia, back for four months. Sine...

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