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Submitted to Contest #326
Alicia Willard was excited. She finally found the job that was going to get her out of the food service industry for good. After eleven years of bouncing from one restaurant to another, hanging out in after hours bars when her shifts ended, and telling herself that she was going to get back to that psychology degree next semester, she finally decided to enroll in the massage therapy program at City College. Nine months later, she had her certification, and now here she was, on the number seven bus heading toward the Harbor District to start ...
Submitted to Contest #230
The woman, Elizabeth, sat at the table by the kitchen window holding a cup of coffee that had gone cold some time ago. She was waiting for her daughter to come home with her husband and the baby. She stared out at the street without seeing the traffic passing by on 84th street, trying to remember where Alison told her she was going. Despite her young age, she was only 53, Elizabeth was beginning to worry about the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Her memory had become suspect lately, especially when Alison was out for long periods of tim...
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