Smoke swirled waxed fire red plastic jumbo cup of crushed ice flavored with lime-green gin based hot-pink lipstick edge. Slide trombone electric blues train chugged five miles out from the station when we first saw her silhouette moonbeams cast upon emerald green felt loaded with blazing red die. Seven.

Black River

Jahneesha rubbed her eyes,glanced at the alarm clock and turned her head into the fluffy overstuffed pillow.

"Damn," she mumbled while she fumbled with the clock.

This sure was the fastest weekend I've ever seen, she thought. It was wonderful to see all of the old gang but none of them have jobs and Jahneesha just started on her first "real" job. A "great" job, her grandmother told her, with the Black River Sheriff's Department.

Jahneesha had to agree with most of this since all of her close friends were still unemployed. They all majored in stuff like Sociology,Psychology, and English. Jahneesha majored in Biology and was excited when she was called in fore an interview with the Black River Sheriff's Department. She made it through all three rounds of interviews too.

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