Bridger Smith

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“The Juggler” by Bridger Smith

Submitted to Contest #192

Fluorescent balls flash through the air in a continuous cycle as the juggler works their hands. Tossing and catching, tossing and catching. Never enough time between tosses for a break. The lunch-hour smells of the market don’t faze the juggler. Neither does the honking traffic, or the sharp-dressed people hurrying back to work, take out in hand, phones pressed to their ears. Even as the crowd gathers around them, applauds at each entertaining break of the cycle, the juggler’s focus never shifts. An increased speed, an additional ball, a fei...

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Full time vegetable farmer, husband, dog dad. Occasional writer, chef, gamer. Infrequent guitar player, snowboarder. Wannabe author, with one novel that exists only in my computer files. I either write grounded cli-fi, or ridiculous stories about nothing at all. You can find me on twitter @bridgemaybicy where I'm trying (and struggling) to work my way into a writing community.