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Submitted to Contest #322
The Dust and the BloomThe alarm blared, a jarring intrusion into the soft gray of Elara’s morning. She slapped at it blindly, her hand missing twice before connecting with the snooze button. Six more minutes. Six more minutes of not having to face the day, not having to face… herself.Elara was twenty-seven, a barista at a chain coffee shop, and utterly convinced that this was her ceiling. Her apartment was perpetually in a state of “lived-in chaos”—a euphemism for perpetually messy. Her ambitions were vague, flickering embers easily exting...
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