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Weekly Contest #105
It's another Friday afternoon like so many other previous ones. He has come home drinking and his taken out his gun to clean it. He makes me sit at the kitchen table to watch. He puts one bullet in the chamber and gives it a spin and then points it at my head. He taunts me by asking me if I feel lucky today. I say nothing and he just laughs and goes back to his ritual cleaning. He is a hateful man when he drinks. I feel sorry for him though, his momma abused him as a child, so he drinks to forget about it. I get up from the table and walk to...
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