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Submitted to Contest #36
I don’t know who is more disappointed in me, you or me. Yes, me. Myself. The one on “being read to.” In case I don’t make it through this and you’re ever in need of something to write about, stand on someone’s back above all others with, or simply gossip about, it is 11:55 p.m. on August 5, 2019 and, from this, you can pick at my bones. By all accounts it was a beautiful day today. That is part of the reason why what happened today is so depressing, because no one wants to hear about it. Oh, the “it.” Yeah, I lost my job today. I can’t sa...
Submitted to Contest #35
He woke from the sounds of the support boards slowly splitting beneath his bed. He rationalized his lethargy and weight gain as a brilliant antithesis to Bernoulli’s Principle and the reason why he would not invest in an alarm clock since his bed would wake him anyway.He slipped on his already-tied thrift store sneakers, snaked his arms through the sleeves of his oversize coat, then dabbed some water on his cowlicks. Then, without forethought that current events have prescribed, he walked out the door. He said he was going to walk ...
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