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Submitted to Contest #337
Your hands trembled as they reached through the car window for the dollar bills, cracked and weathered now, the same hands that once shot three pointers and palmed exam cheat sheets with ease.I remember those hands from seventh grade, carrying your tray at lunch period, when you sat down at my empty table without asking. Not the popular kids’ table where you belonged, but mine, the one by the emergency exit where I ate alone and sketched in the margins of my notebook.“You drew that?” you asked, pointing at my cartoon of the lunch lady as a d...
Submitted to Contest #336
CW: Physical violence, animal abuse, substance abuse, gambling addiction When Mom married him, we thought the lottery was just a hobby. He’d wake from dreams reaching for the pencil by his bed, scribbling down “lucky numbers” and tucking them into his wallet with a wink. Back then, Maple Street, Ford plant paychecks, penny candy, the world felt large enough for hope. It was 1969, the year everyone talked about the moon landing, the Mets, and war protests on the nightly news. Big things were happening everywhere, and in our house, mom hummed ...
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