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Submitted to Contest #192
An evening shift at work was the last thing he wanted to do after the day he’d had, but Ryan had promised to cover for Evie and he didn’t want to attract the wrath of Jean, his manager, by bailing. So, he found himself sitting on the 17:26 bus service to St George’s Arcade, still dripping with rain, trying to ignore the pain from his swelling black eye. He was almost certain that the hastily and inexpertly applied concealer he’d stolen from his mum’s make-up bag had dissolved in the downpour, if it would have even stood up to scrutiny to b...
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