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Submitted to Contest #136
Hi, it’s Yaro. Can we talk? Please. After reading his message, I said SCREEN OFF to put my phone’s display in standby mode. Since he returned from the pilot colony on Mars last week, he kept calling and sending messages, expecting I would agree to meet. I lost count of how many times I blocked his number so he couldn’t bother me anymore. Maybe, it was thirty times. Maybe more. But he always had a new number to use for bothering me. A tiny ant on my dashboard tried to drag a cookie crumb, reminding me that my last visit to the car wash ...
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