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Rated: E · Short Story · Other · #1425583
100-word short story for a contest - my first ever! I won 3rd place!! :-)
The one time of the day I have alone. Emma is sound asleep. Walt's in the shower. All I want to do is lose myself for half an hour! Is that too much to ask?

She flips the channel to Bill O'Reilly screaming about the latest political uproar.

Good grief. Calm down.

More flipping channels.

Flavor of Love. For the love of all that's good in the world...what the...Really?!?!?

Flip. Flip.

Is this woman seriously crying over a man she just met? No... She has a Ph.D.!!!

Enough of this. She turns the TV off.









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