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Submitted to Contest #330
She smiled for him and only for him, and he would treasure that forever. His love, his one and only. Their first meeting was banal, as most are. A mixup in coffee orders. There were the usual apologies as they exchanged cups; then she smiled at him and his world shifted. He started to look for her at the coffee shop, always trying to elicit that same smile, the one meant just for him. It fuelled him, made everything sharper and clearer. On occasion, if he got there before her, he would place and pay for her order. It was a chance to make sma...
Submitted to Contest #329
Dead to the world. She hated how people used that phrase. Smug bastards, bragging about their good night’s sleep. They had no idea what that phrase truly meant. She did though, in every possible sense of the word. From sunset to sunrise she was always wide awake. There were no more good night sleeps for her. And when the sun rose-- well that was when she was truly dead to the world. Unconscious, unaware, just a lump of undead flesh. So even though her definition of death altered with the location of the sun, she was always somehow dead to th...
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