Cleaning Up
You Never Really Know What Someone Is Thinking
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4 min readJan 26, 2024
Paul and Rick fought on the Tuesday before winter break, and again on the Wednesday, classes resumed. The first argument was over the cigarette butts. Paul flicked the last of his cigarette on the ground even though a black metal canister was beside him. Rick, the building’s maintenance man, walked by just as the butt landed on the ground.