Peter Oke

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“Polaroid blues” by Peter Oke

Submitted to Contest #100

A man in a rusty coat arrives at the entrance of a diner. He slowly reaches for his pocket with his wrinkled hand and retrieves a photo of what looks to be a much younger version of himself and a young woman standing beside him holding on to a baby. He compares the backdrop in the image to the current diner and exhales deeply. He walks into the diner pensively and goes past a laughing couple and then a young woman sat on her own looking through the window with her drink in front of her. He gives her a second look the goes passed her to find ...

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I'm an aspiring film maker and screenwriter based in Lagos, Nigeria