Prompt 12 | Week 12: Lines
Deadline: 24 March 2021
Word count: 1200 – 1500 words
Please do not post before the deadline.
George was upstairs in the lobby, pacing back and forth behind the reception desk, the way he often did when the lunch hour was ending. Anxious, Barry thought, that he wouldn’t return. That the desk would be unmanned. Maybe whatever…...
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