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Byron Jordan De Borja

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Nine Days

Submitted to Contest #215

I’m drained, exhausted, utterly spent, empty. The flight from LA, the bus ride to the wharf, and the ferry trip to this remote island I once called home sapped the life out of my already capitalism-battered body. Air, land, and sea! I should be in dreamland right now, but my mind just won’t let me be… I sank my fatigued body into the aging mattress which had lost its once-soft cushioning, now resembling a lumpy, uneven terrain. Beyond the discomfort of my sleeping arrangement, lethargy had so far eluded me as my mind kept insisting that ...

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