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Submitted to Contest #53
Another day of this blasted heat wave, another busy day of work. It's days like this that I feel my job is eating me from the inside out like a worm eats a long-dead corpse. Nothing like a few macabre thoughts to start the day off right. I roll out of bed and pull on my uniform, the familiar black folds enveloping me. Even though it is early in the morning, the heat is already suffocating, and I pause to wipe away the sweat that is already pouring from my forehead. It’s sticky, like a popsicle left melting on the asphalt, forgotten by som...
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