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Guilty Pleasure Songs by Peter Pendras
My phone chirped, coming to life. Don't forget: yogurt and bananas for your smoothie. Followed by three heart emojis. A text from my wife who had been dead for a year and two months. I felt a stab of rage. Definitely not the “warm fuzzy feeling” described in the promotional sales claptrap. When Diane passed, I wanted the simplest, most straightforward process. Take the body to the industrial oven and turn it to dust. Give me the dust in a cardboard box. Done.
Thomas Wins the Lottery by David Rempe
Thomas is a thirty-something year-old man who is down on his luck. When he cashes a lottery ticket, he wonders if good fortune is finally coming his way. This piece investigates the reality of the one-in-a-million chance to have it all we all dream of.