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Submitted to Contest #266
I was walking back from the coffee shop, buzzing from the seven shots of espresso I drank after work to help me come up with ideas for the story I was supposed to be writing. I hoped I would go into some weird, caffeine-induced coma and while I was in it I would magically come up with ideas. I’m a writer and I’ve been trying to publish a book but writing at home and only working weekdays at a coffee shop with a minimum wage pay is not a livable situation. After hours of thinking about how to fix this problem, I came up with the idea to enter...
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