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Sally Roberts

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No going back

there's no going back now. Mara said it out loud to make it real, her breath fogging the cracked windshield of the '98 Civic she'd bought off Craigslist for $800 cash. The car smelled like old coffee and air freshener and it had a Jesus fish on the trunk someone had tried to scrape off. In the glovebox was a burner phone, a baggie with just enough powder to be convincing, and her press badge wrapped in duct tape. Not that the badge would help her where she was going. Three months ago she had been Mara Quinn, 29, junior reporter at the Kans...

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The porch

The porch light was out again. Frank had been meaning to fix it for three weeks. He had the bulb in his kitchen drawer, still in the little cardboard sleeve from the hardware store. He just kept forgetting, because at 71, forgetting was what you did. You forgot porch light bulbs and you forgot why you walked into the pantry and you forgot that you already took your blood pressure pill. On Tuesday, October 14th, at 6:47 p.m., he remembered. He was at his kitchen table in Raytown, looking out the window at the street getting dark early the way...

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Love loss

Weekly Contest #366

She still sets his coffee mug out. Every morning for 47 years, Evelyn did it the same way. She would wake up before the sun, before the alarm, because Thomas's breathing would change. He'd shift onto his side, cough once, and pat her hand under the blankets. That was her alarm. In the kitchen, she made two coffees. One black for her. One with just a splash of cream for him, "enough to turn it the color of river water," he'd always say. He'd been saying it since 1978 and she had been rolling her eyes since 1978. Thomas has been gone eight mon...

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