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Another Lonely Holiday
The city had been dressed for the holidays like it was trying too hard, lights strung between buildings, wreaths taped to office doors, music spilling from stores onto the sidewalks. From the outside, it looked warm. From inside her chest, it felt hollow.She had spent the afternoon with coworkers because it was easier than going…
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Finally a Call
She had stopped jumping when her phone rang.A year ago, every unknown number sent her heart racing—hope crackling like static in her chest. Now, after twelve months of polite rejections, silence, and the soft humiliation of “we’ve decided to move forward with other candidates,” she let the phone buzz twice before answering.“Hello?”“Hi, is this Mara…
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Day in Bugs Bunny’s Life
Lisa woke up to the sound of chewing.Not the polite, distant kind of it, this was loud, confident chewing, the kind that suggested absolutely zero concern for social norms. She opened one eye and found a gray rabbit sitting on her nightstand, calmly eating a carrot and leaving orange shavings on her alarm clock.“Eh… what’s…
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An Obsolete Item
The Last Charging CableI keep one in the drawer by my bed, coiled neatly like a habit I can’t quite break. A charging cable. Black, frayed near one end, the plastic split just enough that you can see the silver threading underneath tiny veins carrying power from the wall into my phone, into my life.…
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Back in Time
Sarah Thompson blinked awake to the soft chime of her alarm clock radio on the nightstand. The room was dim; sunlight filtered through heavy avocado-green drapes. She stretched, feeling unusually stiff, her joints aching like she’d run a marathon in her sleep. At 35, she thought with a yawn, these little creaks were starting to…
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A Lifetime of One Thing
The letter arrived without ceremony no gold seal, no confetti, just a thin white envelope waiting among bills and grocery flyers. Inside was a single page that read:Congratulations. You have won a lifetime of one thing. Please choose wisely.There were rules printed in smaller letters. No money. No immortality. No undoing death. Just one thing,…
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Everything for Free
They woke up expecting alarms, bills, and the quiet dread of checking balances.Instead, the screens were blank.Prices were gone not crossed out, not marked $0.00, just… absent. Grocery apps showed pictures of food with no numbers beneath them. Gas station signs flickered, then settled into nothing but brand logos. Rent portals refreshed endlessly, as if…
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Lucy’s Decision Dilemma
Lucy stood in the kitchen long after the coffee had gone cold, the morning light slanting in through the blinds and striping the floor like a quiet accusation. The decision had already been made—signed, sent, irreversible in the way only ordinary choices ever are—but her body hadn’t caught up to that fact yet. Her chest…
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Overrated
Everyone agreed the most important thing in the world was being busy.Busy meant valuable. Busy meant success. Busy meant you are needed, in demand, indispensable. People wore exhaustion like a badge, traded stories of sleepless nights the way others traded souvenirs. Calendars packed tight became proof of worth.No one questioned it—until the day the clocks…
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Future Advise
If I could go back ten years, I wouldn’t arrive with dramatic music or grand warnings. I’d find myself in an ordinary moment, sitting on the edge of a bed, phone in hand, heart quietly convinced that life was already behind schedule.I’d sit down beside her and let the silence stretch first. She wouldn’t trust…
Saturday Afternoon 