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Weekly Contest #25
Life had been dull. There was nothing to do beyond going to work and coming back home to sleep. Lisa's schedule reduced her existence to one of pure exhaustion. She handled a lot at work, beyond her pay grade. The commute she endured every day added to her woes. She spent her weekends of late sleeping and doing chores when she could. Am I depressed, or is this just fatigue? Lisa had been mildly depressed earlier in her life. She, therefore, knew that it manifested through sleepiness. She also cried often. Something needed to change...
They got to the party early. It was still slow-paced. People sat around their tables with their friends drinking as they chatted. The music in the background was playing 90s R&B. The dance floor was abandoned. The people who had shown up by that time all looked marvelous.Tammy had not envisioned herself attending a New Year’s Eve party. She always spent it cozied up in bed. The girls had convinced her to go out tonight. They had asked her to keep her night free. Her hope was that it would be a girls’ night in. She thought they would talk...
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