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The Chat
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A single, middle-aged man in Pittsburgh is contacted out-of-the-blue by a strange, very frank, date-seeking, mid-30-ish, attractive lady. An online chat ensues. Her circumstances are uncertain. Doubt and suspicion arise. Is she telling him the truth? Is she just another gift-card scammer? Who will the man really meet? Anyone? Will he live to see tomorrow?
Rating: PG-13 (some sexual innuendo).
Word count: 2828.
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The Chat - Mike Bozart
Wil Orwilnaught flips on his laptop computer on a cool but autumnally inviting Sunday evening (October 25, 2020). Ashen clouds from northeastern Ohio, including a radar-evading roof-scraper out of East Liverpool, have now settled over Regent Square (an East End Pittsburgh neighborhood). The brown-haired Caucasian gent gazes over his detached, front-yard-occupying, cinder-block-walled garage on narrow, storm-grate-side-pocket-less Billiard Way. The late-20-something neighbors across the street are merrily drinking hard seltzer and sparkling wine atop their wrought-iron-railed, flat-topped, curbside, cauliflower-white-painted, two-car garage. The forty-seven-year-old Steel City native becomes lost in thought in the dying gloaming. Those millennials sure seem to be having a jolly old time over there. Again. Wonder who the guests are tonight. Some in-laws? Out-of-town friends? Across-town friends? Nearby friends? Nearly nearby friends? Nearby nearly friends? [internal chuckle] Maybe I’m envious. Ah, to be 29 again ...
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