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Weekly Contest #293
Alec Barnes sat back in his seat, adjusting his collar as the flight attendants began their safety briefing. It was a routine flight, a quick three-hour hop from New York to Chicago, nothing to be excited about. He had been on hundreds of flights before, always with a vague sense of anticipation and a dull ache in his back from being confined to a narrow seat for hours. He was tired. The kind of tired that didn’t have much to do with lack of sleep, but everything to do with the weight of his life, the lingering sense of inevitability that ea...
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