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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Dark stories

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Living In The Fallout As she watched the cab meter slowly tick upward in increments of forty cents, she reached into her coat pocket and lovingly thumbed over the paltry heap of change that remained. $4.40 $4.80... The loose bills were few and had been saved only by her decision to exchange her dinner for a few minutes of warmth. Only a bit more and I'll have to tell him to stop, she thought miserably. $7.20 $7.60 She shuddered at the thought of going back out into the bitter cold that held the city so relentlessly. She would once again have to fight with the others who had been driven to ...

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