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Submitted to Contest #35
“This is not a good start.” I groan as the cheery alarm rouses me. My mouth is dry and tastes like stale gin and bile. I’d apparently only made it halfway into my tent before passing out. And now it’s early, painfully early. The programmed alarm grows louder, taunting me into consciousness. I flail about to disentangle my torso from the sleeping bag I’d crawled into headfirst. I imagine I look like an enraged, hungover mealworm. “Augh - Christ - I KNOW!” I finally tear off the sleeping bag, tripping backwards out of the tent and into the hal...
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