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Graduate in the house

Sarah Chen has a master’s degree. I need everyone to sit with that for a second. The woman who color-codes her pottery glazing notes and ...

Elena Sarah Chen
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The strangers at the corner table

There were two women at The Grind yesterday — corner table, the one by the window that I always want but never get first. I wasn’t trying...

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The part nobody sees

Jake’s on a late shift. Carmen texted the address forty minutes ago. The place has a rooftop and apparently the drinks are ‘extremely rea...

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She asked him why he looks tired

It wasn’t planned. Jake picked up his laptop to move it off the coffee table and I said, almost without thinking, we should call Abuela R...

Elena Jake Morrison
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Heat index 107, one fan, zero dignity

The heat advisory was not a suggestion. I know that now. Sarah came over this morning with the plan of going through some of the coordina...

Elena Sarah Chen
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The paint was just sitting there

There was a set of watercolors in the cabinet above the bookshelf that I bought nine months ago and have opened exactly never. I know thi...

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The 2am street report

Woke up at 1:47 and that was apparently that for sleep. Jake was completely out — the man sleeps like he filed paperwork for it — so I gr...

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He read the manual. Once. Briefly.

The AC stopped working sometime between last night’s fireworks and this morning’s sunrise. I know this because I woke up at seven AM swea...

Elena Jake Morrison
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