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Weekly Contest #341
This story contains themes of childhood abuse, emotional distress, alcohol use, and death, which may be sensitive for some readers. It doesn’t take much to piss someone off. All it takes is a stupid look on your face, and you wind up with a black eye and an excuse to tell your teacher the next day at school. Arthur’s pops was an expert at that, along with the constant berating and neglectful parenting. Sounds like an oxymoron, if you asked him. He wondered if John Abbott took his pop’s advice about anger, ‘cause he swore if you looked clos...
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