Bitter Loaf
I got to the market at five in the morning, which is the kind of hour that makes you question every decision that got you there.
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I got to the market at five in the morning, which is the kind of hour that makes you question every decision that got you there.
I was thirty-five years old and bored all the way down to my shoes.
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The taxi dropped me on the corner by the old textile mill at eight in the morning, a full two hours before the rehearsal was supposed to…
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I parked my Corolla in the same spot I'd used for two years and sat there for a minute with the engine off.
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Summit Compass, Margin of Rose, The Sparrow Chapter, The Roan Margin
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