Charlie Smith

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“Just a Cup of Tea” by Charlie Smith

Submitted to Contest #61

Coffee machine buzzing. Train on the tracks. Laughter, footsteps and a ringtone all hummed around the station in the morning chill. I stood quietly and watched it go by. Thirty minutes until my train. Walking up to the coffee shop counter I looked to the uninterested woman behind it and hesitated before ordering. A child screeched in a pram as they were pushed by the door. I begged for the day to be over already. “Americano…please,” I said to the woman who just seemed borderline annoyed by then. What was her problem? I paid her and b...

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