Kannika Pena

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“Excuses” by Kannika Pena

Submitted to Contest #104

“Are you coming tonight?” Words I thought I’d never hear again. Especially after all the endless lockdowns. And still, why did it send a shiver of panic down my spine? It’s been years since I’d heard it — you would think I would forget all my impulse reactions to any sentences or words that implied socializing, and yet there it was: the milli-second of scrambling the back of my brain for the usual excuses, wondering which one I’d used more recently, just so I could avoid it, just as a courtesy to the asker. And yet I realized, the last tim...

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A freelance writer from the Philippines