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Submitted to Contest #286
Jail Nurse2009-ishI had been thrown in jail for something minor. I don’t remember what, but I was drinking heavily at the time, which is why I was put in the drunk tank. It was a large cell with a concrete floor and cinderblock walls painted yellow. There was nothing else in the room except a water fountain and one of those stainless-steel toilet/sink combo units they have at jails everywhere. You know, where the sink is built into the top of the toilet tank? I suppose there was also the stench: the stale malt-liquor/greasy-cheeseburger sten...
“We must stop doing this,” Larry said quietly. “Pshhh. Stop being so controlling. Don't underestimate me.”Phuong and Larry have been at this for years. It started as a purely money-saving effort, but at some point, it just became their thing. Phuong was, in Larry’s opinion, pushing the envelope. Especially now that she is three months pregnant.“I’m not fucking being controlling or underestimating you, babe, and you know it. You are pushing it. You are pushing the… pushing the fuckin’ envelope, babe.” said Larry, shaking his head.Phuong alway...
Submitted to Contest #285
“Freeze, Jabroni! Don’t make a move!” Carl almost burst out laughing until he turned around and saw the camouflage-gear-festooned rodent-faced man pointing what could only be a large caliber handgun directly at him. “I tol’ you don’t make a move! Now turn around and put your hands behind your back!” shrilled the man with the gun. Carl, a tall, thin, balding man with blue eyes, was no longer in a laughing mood. In fact, a sense of ice-cold terror was trickling down his spine. He’d never had a gun pointed at him before. Teetering on the edge o...
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