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Submitted to Contest #307
The wind sliced through Chicago like a knife as Mira stepped off the train. The city was louder, dirtier, and more alive than the small Midwestern town she’d fled a year ago. She tightened the belt of her thrifted trench coat and kept walking, eyes alert. Mira was done waiting. She’d grown up in Reddings, Iowa, a dot on the map with nothing but cornfields and secrets. She lived with her mother, a Jamaican librarian who believed in knowledge over instinct, and her father, an absent ghost of Irish descent. Mira had learned early how to be invi...
Submitted to Contest #162
I don’t even know why I bother looking at the menu at this point. I know what I am going to get and the waiter does as well because I have been here every damn Friday night for the past 3 weeks. The waiter knows and I know, I am going to put the menu down look up at him, smile and ask him for the Eggplant Parmesan as if I am trying it for the very first time and hope that it is as good as I have heard. Do I need to stop coming to this place? Why yes I do. Because let’s be honest the eggplant parmesan is not good in the slightest. But the pro...
Submitted to Contest #132
Melody stared at herself in the mirror. She didn't recognize the woman staring back at her. She had been pretending to be what fits or is acceptable for so long, that she was anything more than a collection of others' opinions and thoughts. As Melody contemplated this, a ding from her phone alerted her that she had received a message from one of the few people who could get a smile from her with just their name popping up on her phone. Opening the text, appeared one word “Starbucks?” from Dan. She expected the daily text but it always gave h...
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