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Submitted to Contest #252
“Hey! Thanks for having me. You’re looking good,” Devon extends a heavy wrapped gift as he enters. My lips are pressed into a cracked plaster smile. I carry his gift past the Bluetooth record player, past the navy and silver birthday streamers and balloons, past the array of finger foods, to the back bedroom of my apartment. The room is dark. A mound of gifts looms on the dresser in front of the mirror. In the reflection, I see the lump of my roommate in bed. “Robin, you’ve got to get up. Nearly all the guests are here.” “I can’t.” “It’s you...
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