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Submitted to Contest #295
The Traveler Synced at 2:13 PM 100% Joe was a dying breed. He knew it; his friends at the clubhouse knew it, and to drive his ego and masculinity further into the gutter, his wife would remind him of it after he received the divorce papers. He was a writer for a newspaper, The New York Times, to be exact. It was a beautiful Monday, but Joe didn't know it. At age forty-five, he was too young to appreciate the warmth that had finally arrived and too old to ignore his need to outperform and keep his job. Joe looked up at his five-story glass ...
Submitted to Contest #288
The rain pelted the window, making sleeping impossible. I stared up at the ceiling, and under the rhythmic sessions the storm produced above me, I prayed that a pause would come. It didn't matter how long; it was just something that would help convince me that this unyielding pummeling of water had an off button. It made me thirsty. l needed something to drink, so I arose, threw on the tattered robe, and found myself in the kitchen, the trip I knew well, which, in the dark, could be done with my eyes closed. It was the middle of the night, a...
Submitted to Contest #286
Joe's eyes crept open like an old roll-up shade. The phone erupted as he fought to get his sense of direction: another hotel room, another day. Morning confusion. It should never be a part of this never-changing routine of getting out the door. His dreams, however, are becoming more explicit and longer, and sitting at the edge of the bed, Joe runs his head through his long gray hair, pondering the reasons for them always ending just when the alarm goes off. He forced himself to get into the shower, and while the water imitated a rainstorm dr...
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