First Place
Winner: Caitlin Reid
It's plain [ : ( ]
1.)
Tammy comes
into the restaurant
to have
something
to do, to
get
out of the house. Her
cellph
one rings; she is popular. Our
bar is a good place for her
to receive calls. She orders
a glass of the house white
and then she goes to the wash
room to do coke on the toilet
tank. Tammy looks
in the mirror. She is
important. When she gets up
to go it is always
abrupt and she always
asks the busboy for
a take‑out soup
container to take her
wine home with
her, the dregs.
11.
Tammy has cheap blonde streaks in her hair
matted down, her legs wobbly and
her nose big and blocked from blow and
her cell phone glued to her car, "See?
See‑the reason I want
a boyfriend is so he could chew the gum
for the first five minutes then give it to me,
so it's not so harsh, you know?"
