Monday Microfiction: "Pay Attention"

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This week's microfiction is a 60-word story about reading between the lines.

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Pay Attention

Pay attention, Dad. Damien’s the funny one. The class clown. He even makes the teachers laugh. Anyway, Damien was late to homeroom again, and he had these crazy bruises all over his neck. I asked who he lost a fight to, but he said he gave himself giant hickeys with a vacuum. Isn’t that a total scream? Dad? What’s wrong?

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