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Submitted to Contest #249
My best friend is getting married, and I’m dancing on a bar top. I’m just shy of 5’10” and I have to crouch in a sequined mini dress in order to accomplish this, but people are cheering so I must be doing okay. Sure, everyone is lubed up, that liquid courage coursing through their veins – and mine, it would seem – but it’s enough to drop it like it’s hot a few more times with an air of confidence I shouldn’t have. Maddy, the bride and my best friend since the age of 15 when I subtly crashed into her black Grand Am during the parking portion ...
Submitted to Contest #248
        “She’s cute,” Ingrid says. She’s stirring her coffee with a butter knife. The scrape of metal against stoneware scratches an itch in my brain. “Although,” she continues, “I suppose that goes with the career she has chosen.”               The word “career” slips off her tongue like something sour she can’t wait to spit out.               Ingrid pas...
In love with love and grief. I write stories for the heart, and hopefully the soul.
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