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Submitted to Contest #282
My self-soothing mantra is, ‘it’s just twelve seconds’. There’s always an uncontrollable muscle tick in my right wrist afterwards, which I have to shake out. Usually, it’s a more mundane repeat. The exchange of a dollar bill to pay out a receipt. Happens once, twice, eleven times, with the same polite hopeful question ‘enjoy everything’ – because if you give people an option for feedback, they might just find something to complain about – followed by generic well-wishing parting words. Or maybe it’ll be a sneeze, ‘bless you’, interaction bet...
Submitted to Contest #174
There’s a rip in the fabric of the universe. She knows it. Her younger self knows of it. Others probably don’t understand what they’ve stumbled upon yet. It’s inconspicuous. She can’t even describe how it works; just knows that years ago she got off the four-o-nine, a pitstop on her way to Ann Arbor and there she was, already at the corner.Autumn thinks this might mean that Blue Benn’s Diner in West Virginia is at the center of the galaxy. Or the edge of it. Maybe that’s why or how it happens. How they’re able to meet at the same place, the ...
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