Christina Esser

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“Alice in the Rain” by Christina Esser

Submitted to Contest #288

Alice in the RainAs she picked out half a bread roll from a municipal rubbish bin, Alice chuckled. She had got away allright! It had been a toss-up between taking the bottleful of oxycontin she’d squirrelled away aftercontracting shingles last year or hitting the road. She had hit the road. Her thoughts returnedautomatically to that terrible time. She had gritted her teeth as tears of unspeakable pain drippedout from underneath her closed eyelids. But she was saving those tablets if it killed her. Alicesmiled at the irony of i...

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