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Submitted to Contest #141
It’s 3:33 am, give or take. The clock on the wall above the kitchen pass has never quite run-on time. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behind. I’d given up on making sense of it. This place was the worst rated in town, but it was open 24 hours so it could be forgiven. Hazy orange light filtered about the diner, with the occasional flash of headlights winking at the windows. The air was thick, the ticking of the clock the only noise to cut through it. 27 more minutes. I nursed a cup of coffee in my hands. I’d poured it some time ago but hadn’t ...
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