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Weekly Contest #42
“I don’t know how much longer I can wait.” Stephen said as he hunched over and put his head in his hands. “It’s been ten hours of waiting and there was only so much hospital cafeteria coffee that I can drink.” “It could be awhile longer, remember, we waited 23 hours for Lucy.” I reminded him as I checked my watch for the fifteenth time in the last 30 minutes. The waiting room chair dug into the middle of my back and I wiggled trying to get more comfortable. The fluorescent lights cast a harsh light on the eerily silent room, that just a cou...
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