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Submitted to Contest #79
She was late. Fifteen minutes and counting. Jules looked up to the sky to find it a milky grey. The clouds swarmed, chasing each other in a self-destructive spiral. Any minute now and they were going to burst. He took out his phone again to check the time. Yeah, Tia was still late, now sixteen minutes and counting. At this rate they would miss the opening credits. His thumbs drifted over his contacts until he found her photo. He smiled; it was a snapshot of them at Disney World. She had insisted on him wearing that stupid Mickey Mouse hat ...
Submitted to Contest #49
It was a sobering thought. I would know; I was drunk at the time. We were in the back garden. An unbearable chill clung to the air, but my beer-jacket was doing the job – my actual jacket did sod all. They say cold air does you good when you’re drunk – a bit of outside to help right the senses. That’s what they say, right? It helps the buzz settle and the world stop spinning. Then, you fall into a blissful post-drunken sleep that even the most irritating alarm clock can’t wake you from. Part of me wanted just that, to head back inside, visi...
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