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Submitted to Contest #309
“Are you alright?!” Dean heard the words echo around his skull like a ping pong ball in a blender. He stood up and brushed the dirt off his clothes, trying to compose himself as best he could. “Yeah, I’m fine. Just a slightly bruised ego.” he muttered with a hint of embarrassment. He hadn’t been that far up the ladder when he fell but the impact to his head was surprisingly nasty. Dean’s coworker, Marshall, looked at him with concern. “I don’t know man, you sure you don’t wanna go to the hospital and at least get checked out? I mean, better ...
Submitted to Contest #305
At the intersection, I could go right and head home-- but turning left would take me right into the heart of downtown. It would be a dangerous play but with a potentially handsome payout: antibiotics, wound dressings, pain killers, and maybe even IV bags if I was lucky. High-risk, high-reward. Not the kind of thing I should be doing unless urgently necessary. Ever since the market crashed and the whole world went sideways it was always such a game of mental chess every time I left the compound. What do we absolutely need right now that we ca...
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