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Submitted to Contest #227
Robert’s eyes open in slits. He looks both ways before he lifts his eyelids further. Feeling safe, he opens them all the way, sits up on the cot, and looks around the dark room. He sees a sliver of light across the room in a corner and debates if it’s warm enough to get up and look out. He pauses tunes in his ears to listen for any movement of anything around him. Silence. He sits up, turns, and puts his feet on the floor, rubbing them back and forth on the furry piece of carpet beneath the cot. He runs his hands up and down his arms ...
Submitted to Contest #225
Kathy walks into the tools section of Walmart to find her husband standing in the center of the aisle with one hand rubbing his bald head and the other holding something, “Jeff, come here, I have to show you this,” she motions her husband towards her. “Can it wait?” Jeff asks as he reads the labels on the sanding pads in his large rough hands, “I want to see which of these I need for the sander at the house.” “Just grab them both and we’ll come back in a couple of minutes,” Kathy replies as she tugs his flannel shirt and motions fo...
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