Christina Truman

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“Forgotten Acquaintance” by Christina Truman

Submitted to Contest #22

Urine-coloured cocktails. High-pitched clinkings of wine glasses. Conversations that gets louder by the minute.The background music of the televised fireworks sings gloriously:Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and auld lang syne?You scan the room, from one lustrous wall to the next, imagining how each face would look if not for the constantly changing light. The people on the dance floor throw their limbs out like insects under a hypnotic spell while the anesthetized world outside awaited beyond the curtains. The trees are bare, like naked ...

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