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Maria Neverovich

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And I Just Didn't Go Home

Weekly Contest #343

Toast with butter. Pop tart with chocolate. Coffee, no sugar. Tea with milk. Fill the flask. Pack the lunch. Do the washing. Get the kids dressed. Morning club. Work. Repeat. The rhythm of the daily routine could be set to a metronome. Tick. Spread. Zip. Stir. Wipe. Sign the form. Find the shoe. Where is that other shoe, anyway? The kettle clicks off like a starting gun. Alice moves before she even thinks. Pour. Stir. Sip. Forget the half-drunk cup of tea till it’s three in the afternoon and way too cold. “Mam!”“Mam, where’s my—?”“Mam, he to...

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The Space In-Between

Weekly Contest #342

The Space In-Between It was a strange, grey autumn. Fog hung heavily over the Lagan, pressing against our chests like a hand held there way too long. Even breathing felt deliberate. It was the very week local government had collapsed again. Tangled in yet another augment of who’s right and who’s wrong, a contest which no one ever seems to win. And I had no idea why I was going to a house party in South Belfast. Why this week of all weeks, when everything felt so suspended? Of course, the news that been looping all day. It always does. Negot...

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