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Submitted to Contest #117
I stood on the front porch next to my wife and swayed just a bit. It required only three stabs with my forefinger to actually trigger the doorbell. To be completely transparent, I'd already had a little too much to drink. "Pregaming," was what I called it. "Stupidity," was the term my wife used. In retrospect, she was right. There would be, after all, plenty of free alcohol at the party, and as someone who doesn't always understand his own limits, there'd likely be more than enough for me to exceed them. Still, we arrived at the pa...
Submitted to Contest #116
Dak was a blue-collar man with a white-collar mind. He had tried, and spectacularly failed a number of times, to break free from what he considered his blue-collar prison. Still, he was good at his trade and it paid the bills, which was not not an insignificant consideration for this father of eight. Thus is was he found himself employed as a "temp" by a large university hospital, in a role that easily matched his skills. The position was advertised as "temp-to-hire," meaning that if the need for his work might reasonably continue into t...
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