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Submitted to Contest #307
Stephanie Jankiewicz woke up on Tuesday to the sun burning through her eyelids, light barrelling through her window, and illuminating a green glass beer bottle on her nightstand. Squinting, she grabbed the empty bottle, turned toward her snoring fiancé Herman, and cracked the bottle on his head. She stood up just as he started to wail from the pain to put on some sweatpants, and reached under the bed to grab a shoulder bag she had packed and stowed there the previous night. She marched briskly out of the room, not stopping to look at the moa...
Submitted to Contest #85
That's the thing about this city.It's a study in contradictions. You move here to "make it", and then once you're here you realize that everyone else had the same exact idea. You love the constant sunshine and absence of precipitation, but curse the lack of "seasons".You think, "wow, everyone's so friendly here!", until you realize that everyone has a hustle, everyone is sizing you up and wondering how you can be useful to them, or maybe just holding the social tether gently enough for some future time when they may need to reel it...
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