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Submitted to Contest #223
[Warning: contains crude language and direct references to substance abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, and violence but no graphic descriptions.] He wasn’t ready for this. His afternoon in the empty, high swings in Eagle Rock Park agendaed bad-wine brooding to facilitate contemplation of whether to finish his shitpile dissertation, “California Youth in Transition,” jump off the Arroyo bridge, or do the first and then the second. Problem was, he wasn’t drunk enough to blot out that splatting sixty feet onto the rough-concrete Arroyo Seco chann...
Submitted to Contest #186
Note: refers to sexual violence, suicide, mental health issues, and contains normally explicit language but no explicit descriptions of sex or violence. Acquired Daughter “Nice day for skipping school.” “I am not skipping school.” “So, why’d you hike all the way up here instead of joining the gathering behind the amphitheater fogging away this fine Friday afternoon?” “I’m Rhona. You didn’t ask. Why are you here?” “I teach at the college. I come here Fridays because it’s high up. I’m into views and swings and drinking bad wine and r...
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