Liela Brown

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“Refreshing” by Liela Brown

Submitted to Contest #233

When I banged open the doors to Lucky’s Tavern, patrons side eyed me like I was carrying a scythe and a black hooded robe. It got dead quiet. I let their gazes slide off me like rain off windowpanes. “Someone run off on their tab?” I asked. Cataloging the clientele, it seemed like the tooth fairy had visited this lot as often as her own children, but each time they’d given her lip that she’d repaid in kind with the ugly stick. I’d never seen so many missing teeth and broken noses scattered across the tables. A sign I was probably in the righ...

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