Strangers
a short story
Roxanne picked the restaurant. Arriving ten minutes early, she sat herself at a table on the empty patio facing the street and ordered just water with no ice. Sipping on it as she breathed in through her nose and out through her mouth, she waited until Sophie showed up and squeezed her behind the shoulders.
“Hieeee!”
Sophie elongates the phrase and snak…
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