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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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Beach Babe Lipstick Smudged on His Cheek

Submitted by rbbrdck_137 on May 20, 2008 - 17:55.

I freeze.
The endless party swirls around me.
He comes out of the room,
gentily shutting the door behind him.
He doesn't walk out alone,
but with
her.
The hands forever laced together,
as if nothing could ever separate them.
He shirt all frumpy,
beach babe lipstick smuged on his cheecks,
pants unbuttoned,
what a slob.
it doesn't take a guiness to figure out their chemistery.
Music blares in my ears,
it burns my heart.
a grapefruit size lump forms in my throat,
making it
impossible
to breath.
The walls close in,
i drop my beer can
making is pour all over my bare,cold feet.
I walk closer to him,
but he gets farther away,
"no."
i try to scream
but comes out as a whisper,
"no."

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