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Submitted to Contest #227
THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MY LIFE! THIS WAS NOT THE PLAN! We separated 5 years ago. Sort of. We have the kids. And the grandchildren. And the house. And the farm. And the dogs. And the cats. And the bills. And all the bloody 30-years-of-accumulated STUFF. He left. He got a job 400 miles away and he left. He’s moved on.  I’m still here. Hibernating. What the fuck am I supposed to do now? I was going along, maybe ...
Write a story about a character who is experience glitches in their realityI guess the first thing I noticed was the fire hydrants. One day they were red and the next day they were fluorescent yellow. I mean, they could have been painted but overnight? And it didn’t look like new paint, it was kind of peeling and a little rusty. It was odd, but I was in a hurry to get to work and, truthfully, fire hydrant colors didn’t have much effect on my life.It was weirder when they changed back to red, a...
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