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Timothy Michaels

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I Need This Job

Weekly Contest #347

I Need This Job Applicant One As I took my seat, I noticed of the young woman already sitting and waiting. She was obviously there for the same reason as me. I gave her a slight nod to acknowledge her presence and the somewhat awkward situation of sitting and waiting to be interviewed for the same job. I decided not to sit across from her because I didn’t want to try to avoid eye contact for however long we were forced to sit here together, so I sat just a couple of seats down from her. With our backs against the same wall, I noticed that...

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They Crumble in Your Hand

Weekly Contest #343

I desperately tried to hang on with all my might. Many of my comrades, my family, had already fallen and I was determined not to suffer the same fate. I knew this was a fool’s errand, that I would eventually succumb to the winter winds the same as everyone else, but I would hold out as long as possible. I had a bad feeling about all this right from the start. I looked around at the desolate landscape when we all first started arriving and couldn’t help but wonder where everyone was. How was there so much terrain for all of u...

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SamSara (and) The Bully

Weekly Contest #339

SamSara (and) the Bully I can’t understand why my parents sent me to this stupid school. It was fine when I was a little kid, but now that we’re in sixth grade and are the older kids in the school, it’s the worst. The only thing the other girls care about is their looks and boys. Forgive me, I don’t want to just stand around at recess watching boys play football and then cheer for them like some airheaded idiot. Sorry, but when I go to the bathroom, I just go to the bathroom, I don’t obsess in front of the mirror for hours on...

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Suffering Can End

Weekly Contest #333

They were going to be here soon, so I opened up the window next to the front porch. The window was positioned perfectly where they couldn’t see if it was open or not, but their voices drifted in. It’s essential to know what people are thinking and saying about you before they walk into your house, you know? I eased myself back into the mechanical recliner and then hit the button that moved it from a standing position back to sitting. Normally I would put my feet up, but then I wouldn’t be able to see out the front window when th...

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Suffering is Caused by Attachment

Weekly Contest #328

Albert’s Story My identical twin brother, Robert, and I always had a complicated relationship. He was a little smaller than me, a little weaker than me, and a little jealous of me. He’d always do this thing where he’d be pestering and annoying me on purpose, and then the second I would shove him or hit him the arm, he’d go running to our mom. I can still see his stupid little face proudly smirking at me from her shoulder while she comforted him and punished me. It didn’t take me long to figure out that she was on his side. It was worse ...

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Life is Suffering

Weekly Contest #319

Life is Suffering My brother had always been a screw-up and to be honest, I had been waiting for that call for years. My first thought when I heard the news wasn’t about my brother at all, but about Sophia.Maybe she would feel bad enough for me that she’d be willing to travel back home with me. But when I called and asked her, she gave me a firm “no.”She’d only met my brother a couple of times and did not like him. Plus, if she went, she would miss our son Sid’s school play. I tried to argue that he didn’t even have any lines, but she wa...

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