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Submitted to Contest #300
She’s staring at me again.I’m getting used to it. She’s probably just curious. Or maybe the “lady” finds me sexy in my Levi’s and Deadhead T-shirt. Wish I’d worn something warmer.Screw the cold. It’s the least of my worries. My real problem is I’m starving. Hunger gnaws at me louder than my teeth chatter. Thirty‑six hours without food. Fortunately, it rained last night, so the dehydration death‑race is running neck‑and‑neck with hypothermia instead of lapping it.For the record, Zelda (my private name for Ms. Unblinking—I’ve been playing Lege...
Submitted to Contest #115
Last Call JD Painter Civilization ended on a routine Tuesday evening. Around 9 o’clock, I was on the phone with my friends Bango and Zoey (they live in Oregon). After the COVID-19 pandemic started, we agreed to call every two weeks to assure each other we were still alive and healthy. While we talked, we used the internet to play racing video games against each other. We never started without a little pre-race trash talk. “Hey, you two Nimrods ready to have your butts kicked?” I challenged with counterfeit bravado. I’d lost 17 out of th...
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