Jake Hailey

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“Cheers” by Jake Hailey

Submitted to Contest #270

“I’m gonna put in drink orders,” Mark said to the waiter. “But I want you to ignore those. Instead, bring out a bottle of champagne. Something French—like a Canard-Duchêne, or I don’t know…something I can’t pronounce. Something fancy, I guess?” The waiter raised an eyebrow the same width and color as his stencil-thin mustache. “Special occasion?” The waiter said in a flat, Midwestern intonation. The way every Midwesterner feels the need to ask a polite though prying question whenever given any sort of instruction. No accent; that w...

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