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Weekly Contest #367
Friday’s last dance Long past closing time, that’s when I’ll realize you won’t be coming. Sitting outside the shop with the cold sidewalk poking through my jeans, I’ll be but an empty shell made ghost under the gleaming lamppost. The routine will be muscle memory by then. I’ll shoot you a text that morning and head to work just to long for a reply that can’t come. I’ll invade your phone with entitled messages, then stare at my screen for as long as my mind will take before it starts glitching. It’ll be a challenging couple of days. The worst...
Weekly Contest #362
Alma has three clients, special clients. The same faces every day, never more, never changing. Client A’s visits fall in the early afternoon, somewhere around two fifteen, consistently on the dot. Stepping inside the restaurant, their walk is slow and uneven. A limp, not obvious, yet present. But once they take a seat at the small table in the corner, their posture is etiquette-worthy: tall back and square shoulders paired with a set of sharp, evaluating eyes. As she juggles pans over the stove, Alma is aware of the trembling her han...
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