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Cadence Layne

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Just Not Right Now

Submitted to Contest #79

It’s 4:30 am on a Saturday morning in February and I’m freezing my balls off. I throw my face into my pillow and huff; thinking this will dissolve all my problems somehow. I get up, pull my boxers off of my groin, and shuffle to the bathroom. I turn on the too god-damn bright lights to see myself. Fucking hell, I shouldn’t have stayed up till 2 a.m. gaming. I jump in the shower hoping to remove the grease from my hair and the alcohol from my pores. Yes, for only 19, I have a decent codependency on booze, if you ask my mother, that came from ...

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