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Submitted to Contest #295
They’re coming in and out now. They stay for a while, then they leave. I’m stuck in this chair, too tired to move or talk or eat, only the energy to sleep and dream. Although, dream isn’t the right word, is it? No, it’s more like I’m going back, going away for a while, like my kids in between visits. They come and sit with me or help their mother get my pills together, but then they go. That’s what I do when I sleep. I don’t dream, I go. My son is here now. His wife is with mine, talking in the kitchen, and we're here watching the TV, watchi...
Submitted to Contest #227
The snow started to fall as Mike stared out the window. His mind was far from the work clustered on the monitors in front of him. Across the crumbling road the turbid sky loomed above dead branches and solemn faces. Mike sighed.His mind was on his father, and the first snow fall since his death. He loved this time of year, he thought and sighed again. The computer dinged and Mike turned his attention away from the gray but beautiful landscape.He used to work in a much larger office with more people, but his work and subsequent promotion just...
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