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As the clock reaches 5 a.m., tensions mound, the doors finally open. The only thing standing between Allison and what she wants (a plasma TV) is the lone security guard…she just accidentally trampled. Now, Allison has to decide whether go for the TV or help a fellow human being?
Ignorance and Want: The Death of Christmas
Every year, Allison took the Friday after Thanksgiving off (from work) just for this purpose. Since she was a junior in high school, the same year the first Mega-Shopper store opened its doors in Emerald City, they’d been coming here. A dozen years later, Allison considered their meeting in Row D of the Mega-Shopper parking lot on Black Friday at 2 a.m. a sort of family reunion. With her two sisters, Roxanne and Patricia, and their mother, Frances, they eagerly joined roughly three hundred other early bird shoppers who’d formed a makeshift line along the side of the store.
Jump Bitch Jump!
Joan’s normally quiet bus ride is suddenly disrupted by the site of a girl threatening to jump off of a bridge. As the chanting begins, will Joan give in to mob mentality and chant, “Jump Bitch Jump!”
Jump Bitch Jump!
Disclaimer: Based on true events, all the characters in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to any real person is merely coincidental.
The oval-shaped police officer ran in front of the approaching bus; with one swift gesture of his hand, he brought it to a complete stop. A traffic accident, thought Joan, maybe…that certainly wouldn’t be unusual for the morning rush hour. Like the other passengers, Joan—no longer lost in her novel—peeked out of the window to see what had caused this unscheduled stop.
