September 2015

A Moment in the Dark

In a sea of empty beer cans, he had made his home a prison. What would it take to break free?

Smoke drifted through the stinking room as sunlight filtered through shut blinds. It was either morning or afternoon. The coffee table was covered with empty beer cans, ashes were everywhere, and nearby lay a stack of yellow tickets from my latest arrests. Add to the unanswered phone calls my overwhelming shame.

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