Tag: drugs
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Grave Designs by Mike O’Reilly
They say blood is thicker than water, but some friendships are made of thicker stuff still. There is no surer sign of damnation than the need to pay a priest for a eulogy. He whispered the prayers. His hand was trembling and his eyes were black hollows burrowed into his skull. A three-day growth filled…
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Hazard Pay by Nick Andreychuk
Simple jobs have a way of becoming more complicated, but that’s why they pay you the big bucks, isn’t it? The stench of stale urine made me want to vomit into the piss-warm beer I was drinking from a dirty glass. I tried to ignore it because I’d picked the stool at the end of…
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The High Road by Sarah M. Chen
The morning after the night before. Sometimes you’ll do just about anything to make the day more bearable, and sometimes you should have just stayed in bed. As Jay staggered to the bathroom to take a piss, the last thing he was thinking of was his pickup truck. Why should he? It was, well who…