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Westcity
somewhere in westcity as reply to Found This

Abraham Kim
coffee Imogen Howe Westcity sun
There's a kind of tired where even coffee doesn't work.

This was one of Imogen's favorite times to drink a coffee. So long as she didn't need to do anything. In this case she didn't. Jack -- acting as Keith acting as an Englishman -- was driving and seemed to have...

Westcity
not that far as reply to Place a Delivery

Abraham Kim
Rust Bar PBR Imogen Howe sun lo mein
"Mmm okay. Order ready in 15 - 20 minutes"

"Thanks. I'll see you soon."

"Oh. By the way. How did you hear about us? If you don't mind saying."

"My neighbor. He orders Ming's every day."

"Thanks. We are trying to figure out where are customers are coming from. Anyways, thank you for your...

Westcity
maybe i should just go home as reply to Drove West

Abraham Kim
reputation sun
Three months passed. No luck in finding the purse. Dave was getting worried. He'd never been this far behind. The client was unhappy. He had no leads. They were looking in the dark. He didn't even think there was a chance anymore. All the previous leads had gone cold and...

Westcity
hangover as reply to The Parking Lot

Abraham Kim
Big Joe sun 7-11 USB
When he arrived at his apartment he was jolted. Sweat. Heartbeat.

The place had burned down.

Then he remembered. He andĀ  Big Joe had done that. This was less than a day ago. Less than 14 hours.

God damn he was tired.Ā  sun light soaked into his head. His eyes ached. Those pills...

Westcity
butch as reply to Anything there

Abraham Kim
bar sun dark earplugs
Normal people didn't know what the inside of a bar looked like in daylight.Ā  sun pouring through. Painting the floors and walls. Revealing dust floating in the air. You never noticed dust in theĀ  dark . It was bright. And Quiet.

Darkness hid much.

With sound it was different Noise could...

Westcity
dome as reply to Found Out

Abraham Kim
sun beer brain gin liver
At a rest stop off the desert highway, Denver took out a sanitized straight razor. The man in the expensive suit was snoring. The sun shining into his eyes as he drove had put him to sleep in the dead of day. The man refused to wear any of the...

The Fall as reply to foul play

Drew
sun
When Denver woke up he couldn't move instead he was bruised and everything was painful. He could only remember the sun Ā being bright and his face felt burnt. When he woke up again he didn't know how he ended up surrounded by white. He drifted out of consciousness and when...

Old Coffee as reply to waiting for the tourist bus

Drew
sun sunglasses
Denver at that point was hot sweat formed at the back of his neck, and he wiped it away. The bus was a relief from the heat, buts its ice cold ac stopped helping soon as they walked out of the door. Blue felt weird on the bus, like he'd...

Westcity
driving back after dropping of Ana as reply to Chapter 2

Abraham Kim
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The evening sun is deceptive. It feels like it might stay forever only to exit abruptly.

On our way to the airport I was squinting, trying not to be blinded. After seeing Ana off at the passenger drop-off, I drove home under violet swirls, the kind that makes you think God...

PO Box 915
too tired to fall asleep as reply to Mysteries never end

Abraham Kim
birdsong sun coffee post office teeth boxer-briefs
He returned to the apartment while it was still somewhat dark. Morning was just around the corner. The birdsong s scattered the noise into the air, and anxiety into him. An excitement. He wasn't even replaying the sensual scenes back in his mind. Instead he was replaying an idea of...

PO Box 915
cowboy

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After learning of his acceptance into the Foreign Exchange Study program, the rest of his school year didn't seem to matter anymore. The days were all just filler until he finally got to go to go live his next life in the USA . Roger had grown up idolizing American...

PO Box 915
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He went to the post office twice a week to collect mail sent to the Non Profit he worked for. It was a small organization with a small budget, not enough for office space, barely enough to pay the wages of the team. Instead they listed their address as a...

Westcity
deadline

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TheĀ  deadline for the paper wasĀ  Friday two weeks ago.

This was the longest time I had gone past a deadline... initially I didn't even know it was possible. I remember Thursday night.... sitting in the library so late. Just when it was neither night or early morning. That's when they...

Sunn

sun
I think I write about theĀ  sun a lot. People have probably written about the sun a lot. The only constant of our days for however long we have been a thing. I guess maybe even before that. Circadian rhythm. Itā€™s found in plants animals and kind of everything in...

A Walk

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You are a daffodil, yellow like the sun .
or an emoji.
Hearts on your sleeve and chest and even forehead.
I should know because I've seen it first hand,
or back hand.
When it was better and we felt like going outside to meet people and when you weren't so afraid of that wall.
This...

šŸ¦  energy

sun test
The day slipped away made loose by the sun .
I felt tired and hot and my throat sore so I took a test .Ā 
Negative one line then I don't know why my throat is sore.Ā 
It could be the many other microbes šŸ¦  trying to get at my energy.
I...

Walking

sun
I was in a hurry today. But it was hard to be.Ā 
My walk was too nice, too muchĀ  sun and birds were flying and singing.Ā 
But I had a deadline, an important document that needed to be done by 9am.Ā 
But seriously how can you not stop and smell...

The Sky Doesn't Close

sky sun
The sky doesn't close.
And we should know because we chased down too many sun sets, even though they were as empty as the end of a rainbow.Ā 
Over and over again, and what was it 10 k?
Even if its raining there is still an opening.Ā 
You can see if...

Fiction Snippets
Shadow | Wanderlust

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Her back was to the windows with the blinds open so that theĀ  shadow made her face black.

"I can't see you," he said.Ā 

"What do you mean?"

"You're a shadow." He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as she walked over to the bed and now theĀ  sun shined upon...

Flash Fiction Practice
Outage

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When he entered theĀ  cafe , it was shadowed. Not dark, theĀ  sun 's light made its way, filtered, to the main area where people were seated.

People were conversing, in hushed tones, now that the music was off. The person at the counter couldn't buy their coffee . TheĀ  barista...

Westcity
A trip

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The sky would descend on them any moment. Of this he was certain. He was trying to warn the others, they were walking together in a group of four, but he didn't want to spook them. How to let them know that soon the sky would be down here, where...

A Sun

sun

I wish I was the sun , a hot ball floating in the sky, and when people look at me they think well depends where they are.Ā 
But a few options are, its so bright. Wow, look at that sunset. Or in Alaska, when will you set?

It would be nice...

The Sun

sun
The sun Ā  was going down and it was warm. I know because my back was sweaty although it is most of the time. The sky was painted cotton candy colors, and the sea below gently breathed in and out changing the tugs of the moon to the bobbing of boats...