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Submitted to Contest #294
I wait maybe ten minutes outside the high school until play practice finally lets out. It’s a cloudy winter Saturday afternoon towards the end of January. The engine is running. The heat is on. The radio talks about public schools planning for immigration raids, tariffs, and then a list of people who won’t be in prison anymore.Elyse pulls the passenger side door open with a rush of frigid air then plops into the seat. She pulls the door shut and gropes for the belt behind her right shoulder. I slip the transmission into drive, waiting for th...
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