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Submitted to Contest #49
A man sits at a bar, pouring over jokes in a crumpled notebook. A woman approaches, walking from the back showroom, and takes a seat next to him. The floor of the bar is sticky and he can hear her suction-cup footsteps before he sees her. “Hey, are you Brian?” “Yeah, hey.” “Hey, I’m Jess nice to meet you. The manager told me to tell you that you’re up in 10 minutes.” “Thanks, Jess, are you a comic too?” “Yeah, I just went up” “How’s the crowd?” “Small, probably like 10 people. There’s a couple up front that won’t stop ta...
This trip to the STD clinic will extend this relationship another week. Because she needs to prove that she’s not shallow, and that when she said she liked him that she meant it and it wasn’t just about the sex and to end it now would make her look like a liar. And he needs to stay with her at least until the test results come back because if he leaves in the meantime then their conversations about treatment or prescriptions will be more uncomfortable than they need to be. And he does like her. Not as much as his ex, but more than he likes m...
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