by Caitlin McGuire
86 words
I decided it was time for a race around the world, so I dared you to meet me back here as fast as you could. You must be really fast, because when I came back in three weeks, you were sitting on my couch watching TV, with a container of kung pao on your lap. You told me Hong Kong was nice in the springtime. I conceded defeat, and sat down next to you, ignoring the receipt from the Chinese restaurant downstairs stuck to your foot.
Caitlin McGuire is a student at UC Berkeley. She has been published in the First Kiss Project and Ruined Music, and is an Assistant Editor at the Berkeley Fiction Review. She writes short stories because they fit her five-foot frame.
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Jacquelyn Mitchard - author of Deep End of the Ocean
Gregory Maguire - author of Wicked
N. Frank Daniels - author of futureproof
Henry Baum - creator of the Self-Publishing Review, author of North of Sunset and The American Book of the Dead (coming soon)
Jacquelyn Mitchard - author of Deep End of the Ocean
Gregory Maguire - author of Wicked
N. Frank Daniels - author of futureproof
Henry Baum - creator of the Self-Publishing Review, author of North of Sunset and The American Book of the Dead (coming soon)
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