Stories tagged “deadline”
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Writing for the Devil
Mack looked at the clock. 11:53pm. It was so close to midnight. He looked up again at his computer screen. No words had magically appeared. He had hardly written anything at all the entire night. It was just too incredibly difficult to be forced to wri...
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The Way Comes But Once
My backpack hung heavy in my hands as if it could anchor me to the ground. I moved like a ghost down the hall, stopping at each of our children’s rooms to peer in. Imagining their faces in the morning when they realized that they were alone broke...
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The Speechwriter
The aged man stood there, staring at me like a confused child. His sweaty, poorly tanned face floated above a suit of conservative navy, and a manicured hand picked at the handkerchief folded in his pocket. “Could you repeat that line?” I a...