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Submitted to Contest #96
Carter Fredrick Shore, a computer programmer, awoke drowsily to the sound of the screeching alarm clock, lazily moving around in the relatively empty guest room of a friend’s, technically Hazel’s brother, Duke and his own wife, Laurel. It was nearing 6:30 a.m. and the sun was starting to streak in through the blinds. It was the first of October in the Lone Star State; he’d officially been without her for more than 243.3 days. It still took every single ounce of strength he had left to get out of bed in the mornings, and to force himself to g...
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