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Submitted to Contest #253
“I can’t come into work,” I say, over long yowls coming from the cat carrier. “It’s–a family emergency.” The vet tech in pink scrubs has snuck up on me, her voice almost a whisper. “Come on, we can get you back.” An old woman with more rouge than advisable hugs her trembling Chihuahua to her ample bosom as though to protect it from the sound. I pick up the carrier and it increases, this keening despair and pain vibrating through the handle. I try not to jostle. But blood spatters out. One glob makes it onto my low heels. On the cream b...
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