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Submitted to Contest #305
“You know what? I quit!”Sixty minutes, huh? I have no idea what to write in sixty minutes so, I’m just going to type and see where I end up. I have quit a couple of jobs. One, where I was a waitress and the cooks didn’t like women. There are always some in the restaurant business that try to get a waitress to quit but these two were just unbelievably rude and the manager didn’t do anything about it. I think they were related. There was another time, I was a lifeguard and the manager of the pool kept calling me, “Doll.” Yes, this was...
Submitted to Contest #304
Fifteen hundred words. Not a problem, she thought as she poured her first cup of coffee and sat at her breakfast island. Dressed in her rumpled sleep shirt and pants, her hair in a messy ponytail, she booted up her laptop.A little harder than it used to be, she thought as she popped down a slice of bread in the toaster and wandered the kitchen thinking about those fifteen hundred words. It had seemed easier in middle school when she would fill those little composition books with stories for her girlfriends. Little essays about them and t...
Submitted to Contest #302
Her feet pounded the sand as she entered her second mile, she felt herself relax. The breeze off the lake washed over her face, drying the sweat into a grimy layer. The sun had already bathed the horizon in pinks, reds and golds and was now a bright yellow ball in the clear blue sky. Summer had arrived.Lacy let her mind empty as she heard the birds squawking behind her. She left the lake and headed onto the path through the tall pine trees on her way around the lake and back to the parking lot. “Why oh why don’t I get out here more ofte...
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