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Lauren Mercedo

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Trapped

Submitted to Contest #47

You look out the window and notice how wrong the weather forecast was. Not surprising, didn’t your mom say something about how weather predictions have been off since the pandemic? Not as many planes in the air or something like that. The world seems to have slowed and the very air feels stiff and stagnant, the heat refusing to be cut by the promised rain. Weather’s still good, that means you can go out as planned. A couple weeks into the pandemic, you started doing drugs. Nothing serious, just smoking a little to pass the time. It’s...

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