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Submitted to Contest #313
July 17, 2029, 21:43 - Garnette, New YorkThe city hums under a sky bruised with storm clouds, the kind that never quite break but keep the air heavy with threat. Neon signs flicker through the haze, their colors bleeding into the wet asphalt. I’m hunched over in a booth at a 24-hour diner on Flatbush, the kind of place where the coffee tastes like regrets and the waitresses never bother with small talk. My phone sits face down on the sticky table, its screen dark but alive with notifications I haven’t checked in hours. I’m waiting for her. A...
Submitted to Contest #312
*New Friend Request: sm1thie12*Amidst the blur of scrolling notifications, a name he neither expected nor recognized stood out. It was from the Jimble app, a new social networking platform intended to fill in for those leaving the politics and drama of the mainstream apps behind. He was hesitant to install it in the first place, lacking a real audience as most new services of the type usually did at their beginnings, but a couple colleagues praised it for being far more social and less about preachy, unwanted opinions. He missed the old days...
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