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Submitted to Contest #168
Laura looks out of the train window, not at the scenery, but at the raindrops pelting the window in rhythmic succession. The pitter-patter, like a lullaby. She begins to feel at ease for the first time that night. As she slowly closes her eyes she suddenly jolts herself back to consciousness. 'I can't afford to sleep right now.' she tells herself. She reaches into her coat pocket and retrieves a crumpled piece of paper, she studies it, focusing on it’s contents intently with her sullen eyes. The significance of its message, so dire to her no...
Submitted to Contest #167
She’s waving her hand in front of me. Why is she doing that? I know she’s here. I know who she is; she’s the other half of my two drinking buddies. I look back down at the small patch of grass along the cracked sidewalk. Little tiny white flowers pop-up and bloom before immediately decaying back into the soil. The cycle continues. “Hello, are you listening?” She says for the first time, or is it the fifth time? “Of course I am.” I lied. She takes a puff from her cigarette, then exhales from the tiny box to her left where her mouth is loc...
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