First Line Friday: “Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous.”

May 8, 2020

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“Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous.”

Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous. She told them that she prided herself on being fashionably late. They knew the real reason, but no one would call her on it, which was an accepted fact for everyone. The car accident from the year before had shattered her right knee and left a sizeable scar across the left side of her face, and it took her a while to face herself before going out. But today was different, and they didn’t know what to think.

—Ariana Adams

Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous. While they chatted in the Starbucks parking lot, a red-haired girl said, “I hope that she isn’t hurt. Maybe she—” when all of a sudden, a car swerved on two wheels into the parking lot and shrieked to a halt.

“Sorry gals! A bear broke into my house, ate everything in my pantry, and fell asleep on my couch,” Kayla said as she ran towards the group with mismatching clothes and shoes. The day had only just begun.

—John McCausland

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Dwight

May 10, 2020

Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous.
High anxiety gripped each when they entered, a pile of boxes could only mean one thing, it was binary; and there was a secondary release. Decades of military grade propaganda upon the civilians had destabilized and impaired any chance of effective countermeasures so this was bad, real bad. Freedom of speech, unregulated from hostile nations, had become their downfall.
The last cyber attacks left the room dark, making the smell fresh rubber and plastic trigger worst case scenarios in their minds. Betrayal within betrayal was replaced with years of war gaming conditioning. They opened the gear and donned the protection, steeling themselves for the long way to the sheltered command.

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First Line Friday: “Kayla wasn’t early to meetings often, so when she was that afternoon, it made her friends nervous.”

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