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Writing Quote of the Day

I need to start putting up shorter quotes or write faster....

You wake up to the pathetic bleating of your dying alarm clock. Bre-e-whine... Bre-e-whine... Eventually it trails off in disgust as if it, too, has already tired of the day. For a long minute, you lie on your back and look at the ceiling. There's a water stain from last September's all day downpour; the day the roofer was supposed to come but didn't. He showed up three days late with no explanation and no apology and when you tried to tell him about the water stain, the stain you wouldn't have if he'd showed up on time he just shrugged and set his ladder on your foot.