Colleen Stump

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“Dense” by Colleen Stump

Submitted to Contest #42

Dense Colleen Shea Stump I'm a bad person. In my 30s, I chased everything in pants. My gallivanting gifted me a husband who wore uptight suits with monochromatic ties and only ate macadamia nuts, other nuts too pedestrian for his sensitive palate. Our relationship detonated when cards on the felt-covered tables and Manhattans-on-the rocks took over, leaving me bankrupt on the street with my boy. The ex? Soft landing in a fancy rehab in Mexico, the bill footed by his overindulgent parents. Now in my 40s, I reside in Transitional Housing with ...

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Putting my toes in the water for writing short stories. Have published academically but this is a whole new adventure.