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Submitted to Contest #33
Joe twiddled his thumbs and tapped his heel on the carpet, waiting. He tried not to look at the large mirror stretching lengthways across the wall to his left. He’d made that mistake twice already as he sat in the cold metal fold-out chair. He needed a haircut. He’d known it for weeks, but his looks never took precedence over his classes, his job, or his writing. So, he placed reminders in the back of his mind, pushing them to the bottom of his to-do list. The problem with his list is that he never reached the bottom. Not that the list was l...
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