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Submitted to Contest #51
An experience I can't seem to get used to. The pounding of your heart, your stomach's in your throat, and all the hairs are standing on your flushed skin. Gripping the wheel as I am chased out of Aubry by blue and red lights, my mind is everywhere. What and who let slip about the operation? How long have they known? The sun hasn't even come up! Taking a deep breath, I think about her, about pop and the town. I shift gears. Growing up in a small town of less than 1,000 can be pretty dull. Especially if you find yourself working on a farm at...
Awaiting news, I went out on the porch of my rundown apartment in South Tampa to catch the purple-hued sky from the crescent moon and Venus sharing their home. After the sun escaped the city, the stars upon the blank canvas glimmered behind the city's lights refusing to let them shine over them. Refresh, refresh, refresh. Every hour, refresh. Awaiting the news from a job I worked so hard toward for the last fifteen years. I needed this life change and looking around the apartment I rented from, I needed the money. Why do comp...
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