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Submitted to Contest #59
One.In my hometown, strangers and friends greeted each other the same way. Mrs. Roberts at the dollar store would ask about aunt Betty with a cheerful grin. She’d ring up our items slowly so she could talk with mama and hear all the news, even if it was a simple ‘she’s fine’. The Anderson brothers who sat in the back of their rusted green pickup truck with ears of fresh corn would give me a discount because the week before we gave them tomatoes and squash. Their radio filled every other word of the country song they were listening to wi...
Submitted to Contest #58
2:05pm. Not only am I late but I’m going to die. An irrational fear. That’s what Allison called my fear of elevators. Irrational. I stare at the dark paneled walls that had been a vibrant orange when I first entered the elevator. Now, in the dark, it was hard to see what color they were. I keep imagining what they looked like with the dim yellow light illuminating them, to keep my heart from exploding out of my chest. But like everything else it’s too hard to think about. I ran my hand through the once shaggy carpet a...
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