Michael Olds

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“Blue” by Michael Olds

Submitted to Contest #253

 Contains themes of serious illness.I pressed the pause button, an unconscious act, as before, and she stopped. It was an almost comic moment as she stood, just about balanced, her knees bent as she began to drop back onto her old chair. This was how it could be forever.I’d discovered the pause button the day that we met. She was about to sit at a table across the room from where I was sat enjoying my tea and Victoria sponge, tucked away in my usual corner of the Blue Stripe Café. I hadn’t seen her come in and the fi...

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