Gabriel Schmitz

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“TAKE ONE” by Gabriel Schmitz

Submitted to Contest #280

On the way to the drug store stands a woman and her table. She has pamphlets about God strewn about across the surface, held in place with various forms of paperweights - everything from rocks to glassware to hardcover books to decks of cards still in their packages. The table is a simple thing made of sturdy plastic with folding legs. She dresses it up nicely with a tablecloth, the front of which is embroidered in messy stitches to say: TAKE ONE. My apartment overlooks where she stands. Even through the constant, thick fog I can make ...

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