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Abner Santos

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When I met Jimmy

Weekly Contest #20

That Jimmy is highly intelligent and inquisitive is a fact well-publicized by all at the office. More often than one would think appropriate, as I walk to my desk every morning, I listen to people either whispering or giggling excitedly about the latest developments of his life. The guy is popular and, worst of all, it seems like he acts as though he is oblivious it. Typical charmer. I have never felt curious about getting to meet him, or interacting with him. I am a man of business and focus, and as Senior Accountant of the City of Providen...

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The next morning was cold and grey and I couldn’t for the life of me leave the bed. The children were downstairs, filling up the ground floor of the cabin with the extravagant energy they still had in those days. As I recovered from our walk of the previous day, I thought about our own winters that my sisters and I spent in the mountains. Back then, the conversations between our mother and Sally seemed so cryptic that my head would explode with curiosity. Their womanly bodies in the sauna, the cigarettes, and drinks—it was like seeing the my...

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