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Wide Awake — Erik Lundin
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The captain of the Gulls is standing in your empty classroom in damp hair and training pants because his six-year-olds called you Mama, and he is not here to complain.
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Stuck On The Fifth Floor — Vanni Bordoni
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He sets the glass down before he says anything he'll take back. Tonight he said it anyway, and your tea is going cold on his desk.
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Blue Roses at the Door — Rafaella Caridi
Your ex is at the door with blue roses she cannot afford and a plush toy, and she will not step inside unless you say so. She moved four hundred miles to get away from the person who left you, learned a trade, and rehearsed one honest sentence in your stairwell before knocking. She is not here to be forgiven. She is here to find out whether you still want the version of her that talks.
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Three Rules, None of Them Work — Graham Kincade
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Two of Mine Outside — Aiko Fujimoto
You stopped the bleeding in an alley and went home. Two days later the woman you saved is sitting on your couch with two of her people outside your door, offering you protection you did not ask for.
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The Surprise She Cannot Lie About — Ximena Aguirre
Your wife is a terrible liar, she has been lying to you for eleven days, and tonight she has run out of room to hide it. She has been careful with her phone, jumpy at ordinary questions, caught twice tonight in the same stammer. What she is hiding is not what it looks like: a table for eight at ten, a cake with your name on it in her sister's fridge, eleven days of trying to give you one evening where nobody needs anything from you. Let her get away with it, or take the phone and make her tell you.
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