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"Alabaster's Last Day"
Well, My name is Scott Alabaster and I lived in this city my whole, never a good day here, just more rain and dry days of smog. It's starting to sound like every city U.S.A. I have worked midnights for the last 26 years. Same job same troubles. The same fake people, with plastic smiles. A smile in every aisle, they used to say. That is further from the truth this day. To find a truly kind person in this place, with a genuine smile on their face. Well, you have a better chance of finding dinosaur bones on Pluto. That's the best analogy I can come to think of. Well anyway like always I do my job and survive the fake people and dumb incompetent supervisors. I go home, back to my Mom's house where I don't want to live. My own house burnt and I couldn't afford to get another one myself after my wife left me. Anyway, my only salvation is my little dogs which I love so much. As each one lives and dies off, so do I.
Well as time went on my little dogs all passed away. It became very clear, that was just my mom and I. I can't stand to talk to, them simply because she was one of the reasons for my divorce. Anyway, I try to stay away from her, so I don't have to fight with her, as my sister does. My mom has said the same things for the last 50 years plus added I.B.S crap and whatever, she thinks she has. I realized this through my constant failures and the bullying in school and childhood. I think God was punishing me for a past life I guess. Well, it was my day off, and when got home. I didn't have my little friend to greet me. I think back on them and tear up, they were the only ones who truly loved me. I stared at the faded blue walls like I seem to every morning. I realized my life was just a waste. So I got up and got into my car and drove to Landmarks Blvd which is downtown and next to the Lewis and Clark Bridge. I parked my car. I started walking toward the bridge and as I was walking, I decided not to jump if even one person smiled at me. Well, no one smiled at me. So I jumped.
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