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Submitted to Contest #279
Sensitive content such as coarse language, violence and mental health. I have to fire someone today. My eyes fly open as I wake. I feel like I have a weight pressing on my chest as it tightens. Great, here comes the anxiety. I lie there awhile before I begrudgingly roll out of bed and ready myself for what I only expect will be a shit day. I slowly make my way downstairs where my husband has breakfast and a coffee waiting.“Good luck today. Remember, you’re a boss ass bitch,” he says as he kisses me goodbye.I sigh. I don’t feel like it ...
Submitted to Contest #275
Story contains sensitive content such as drowning. Where am I? Darkness surrounds me as the sounds of night fill the deafening silence. Sounds of frogs croaking, rodents shrieking, and splashes near and far threaten to overwhelm me. I’m lost. Alone. Lonely. I strain to look around and see nothing and terrified to move out of fear of being prey to whatever is causing those animals to shriek. A chill runs through me as fear consumes me. I cast my senses out, trying to listen and look for anything or anyone to help me, to find me. A murky shiel...
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