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Submitted to Contest #325
I met him the summer after I graduated college. I was living in the hollowness of my senior year house after the roommates I tolerated went home. Nothing painful or tragic, but true purgatory.A week into June, I finally broke the routine. After the morning shift at the restaurant of Sunrise Ski Lodge, I flattened the back seats of my SUV and laid out the couch cushions in the space. The engine struggled to turn over a few times before managing, and I pushed the pedal to the floor all the way up Idaho’s premier ski mountain.In the end, I was ...
Submitted to Contest #324
It occurred to Lucy, not for the first time, that if she died out here, no one would know. She would be a missing person, lost at sea, like the old sailors, swallowed by the deep.Unlike those sailors, she had no sweethearts clasping tight to the foreign gifts she’d given them to remember her by. She had no children to abandon, an explanation always on their lips about where she’d gone. She would be leaving no abyss at home. That comforted her, even if the thought of dying did not.The only thing left behind would be the dress. If her twenty-n...
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