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Shaddix Streams

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Most of Us Are Strangers

Submitted to Contest #96

This was just another hookup, something to take me from the hardships of work and just take a load off. He came and picked me up from my barracks room late Friday night and I thought I was just going to relieve some stress, just do a quickie and get it over with. Since I’ve joined I’ve been working these long twelve, thirteen hour days. It gets rough, coming home to an empty room, knowing your family’s over a thousand miles away, a young sailor can only handle so much of the abyss. When he picked me up his eyes were a little hazy and it was ...

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