All Suffering Soon to End
My boss called in the early afternoon while I was still in bed. I’d been working with a hotel housekeeping staff, cleaning guest rooms and getting paid under the table because I couldn’t be hired anywhere that required a background check. “What do you want?” I groaned. “Can you tell me — after the horrible morning I just had — why you didn’t show up for work?” “I didn’t feel like it,” I said miserably. “You didn’t feel like it?” “I guess not.” “You can go to hell,” she said before she hung up. I rolled out of bed, stepping carefully around the garbage...
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