Tag: addiction
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DECISION TIME
Pick a door. Go through it. The choice is hers to make. She hesitates, shuffling on the illusory sidewalk one way then the other. Images surface through glass panes. Behind one door she sees her mother, smiling, beckoning, encouraging. Through the the next she sees Bethany, her cute pudgy smile, her big blue eyes, her…
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MR. VORACIOUS
He decided: from now on, whatever it was, he was going to do it voraciously. That’s what they said about all these successful people: Musk and Jobs and Bezos, they were obsessives and workaholics. Work hard, play hard. That was how to get ahead. So he would work longer hours and stop taking breaks and…
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THE FIRST SNOWFALL
Her skin is pale, her rumpled cotton vest and panties whiter than the cream sheets she lies on. She murmurs something in her sleep and rolls over, an exquisite bare thigh arching on top of the covers. Her hair is dark black in contrast, a short bob framing her resting face. The cold winter air…
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SHE SECRETLY HOPED
She secretly hoped they wouldn’t find them. Why else would she have hidden them so deliberately? She put on a brave front, pretending to enjoy the hunt. It’ll be fine, they told her. Everyone else was doing it. The stash of pills was duly discovered. Her addictive personality was defenceless. Written as part of #MicroMondays,…