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Submitted to Contest #58
In the suburban dullness of Silicon Valley, inside a middle class house with a brown lawn and broken tree lives an overweight, fifty year old engineer, slouching on his coach, his yellowed, strained eyes seeking solace on his iphone. He scrolls down his Youtube feed and has never felt inclined to spend time with his children because he never knew how to communicate with them and the children have long ago ceased to desire his company. Above him is a counter where sits a bourbon glass already previously refilled three times, and the plain hou...
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