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Submitted to Contest #318
Sleep was something Juan Tomas Jr. hadn’t enjoyed in years. Something he would now fall into as a last resort, after pills and alcohol and hours scrolling the internet hypnotized his brain into believing it could rest. But the moment his body fell back, and his eyes closed, his past would flood in to haunt him. Juan once did enjoy sleep, so much that he often overslept, then skipping breakfast, would bound up from his basement apartment to catch a ride before his father’s truck left for the jobsite without him. That was more than ten years a...
Submitted to Contest #315
It was hot that day, with the kind of heat that can make people do crazy things, things that on an ordinary day they likely wouldn’t do, things that could change their lives. With the kind of heat where the air feels more solid than air, full and heavy, like a velvet curtain or a cotton sheet on a clothesline left out in the rain. Saturated, weighted with wetness. Not the kind of desert heat that scorches skin and sand, but the kind of hotness that punches, knocks the wind out, drags you down, so you don’t feel like moving, so even breathing...
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