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Submitted to Contest #61
3:03 a.m.The phone rings. My first thought is to not answer it, because what good could possibly come from a phone call this early in the morning? Any phone call between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. usually means someone’s dead. I bet it’s my father. I never did think he’d make it long enough to see me graduate college, and when by some miracle he did, I said he wouldn’t live to see me turn thirty. I’m twenty-eight. I could still be right. I shuffle out to the living room, switching on every light along the way. Who has the numb...
Submitted to Contest #40
41 years.That’s how long Jules and Geneva had been married. Exactly.As Jules sat in bed on the dawn of their anniversary, on top of the covers, wiggling his toes, he took time to reflect on the past four decades of his life. Many mornings since his retirement started off much like this. Jules would naturally wake up at the first signs of new light, but having no real need to be up and about at this hour he would often just sit and think, allowing his own imagination to entertain him. On occasion he would read or watch the televisio...
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