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Submitted to Contest #40
Sam was sleeping in … and he hated it. It was 8:30 am, and instead of working, the grown man was tossing and turning in bed. Unfortunately, with the national stay-at-home order forbidding more than groups of ten, he was one of the people laid off from his job. But who lays off a janitor during a pandemic? Sam thought bitterly. He couldn’t stand it. He needed to work. Sam roughly tossed back the covers, accidentally waking his wife, Ronnie, lying with her back to him. “Hey,” she muttered irritab...
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