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Submitted to Contest #37
It happens in the woods. Jules and I are smoking weed on top of a giant rock, just passing the joint back and forth. She used peach rolling papers and I can taste a little bit of sweetness with each hit. The woods are kind of our place, me and Jules. We’ve been coming here for years. It’s nice to get away from the noise of the city sometimes and just breathe. Today Jules is wearing these huge purple sunglasses and a neon pink crop top with cut-off denim shorts. She’s got Doc Martens on her feet and her dark curls are squeezed into ...
2.22 I got laid off today. That was fucking great. Just great. It was raining too so I went outside and cried in the rain and walked to Starbucks. I didn’t buy anything because I no longer had Starbucks money. I wanted to call my best friend, but we were in a fight, so I called my boyfriend. He told me, “Don’t worry, you can just get a new job.” I told him, “Wow, thanks for the sympathy, Kevin.” We talked for ten more minutes before he had to go. “Bye,” I said. “Bye,” he said. His voice was empty like his eyes. I left Sta...
Submitted to Contest #35
It was a Sunday evening when I decided to take a walk. My initial thought was: “It’s so fucking cold out here! What the fuck?” My second thought was: "Why did I decide to move to one of the coldest cities in America?" That was a genius idea, wasn’t it? The sad thing is that as cold as it was in this city, there wasn’t even any snow. It was just freezing and depressing and everyone walked around in the 10 degree weather acting like there weren’t eight foot long icicles hanging off of buildings and waiting to kill people.According to an Instag...
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