Mina sighed as she walked out of the small store. Her breath formed a cloud in the cooling evening air as she was exposed to the cold city air. She reached into her bag, and pulled out one of the two things she bought. A pack of large cigars. Now, she knew what little money she had would be better spent on essentials, but to Mina, this was essential to her. She never felt complete without it. Was it addictive? Sure. But as a girl living on the streets, a cigar addiction was the least of her w
Keeping Warm
By: Tyva
Favorited: 2 days ago
The sign on the tree read "Don't feed the bears." Sharon ignored it.She'd talked to the nice retiree couple working as campground stewards and they said they hardly ever had bear trouble here. Twenty years ago, sure, but then they replaced the dumpsters with bear-proof ones and put in metal food lockers at every campsite. With no easy food to scavenge the bears mostly stopped showing up. The signs were a relic of earlier times.They were too high in the Sierras for thieving raccoons to be a probl
It's always too late to ask
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