Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

Down time can be just fine

playing bangers from the 90s

tea break

lunch break

maybe listen to the outbreak

sometimes it's not time for some

tombola right

it's enjoying lasagna time

chilling with a book time

or time to visit your nan time

go on play some other time put your your phone down. Tombollah.

Open for fun. Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.

I should have trusted my gut the moment we rolled into the empty lot at Lake Echo just after

527 in the morning. Only one other vehicle sat there, a dented silver station wagon with every

window fogged from the inside. A crumpled missing hiker flyer was pressed against the windshield.

The ink bled so badly I could read only two words.

Last scene. Dom joked that the car looked abandoned enough to film a zombie cold open,

but the joke didn't land.

The air carried that brittle Sierra chill that makes your teeth ache,

and somewhere in the pines a Stellars Jay let out a rusty hinge of a call.

We were three friends who had backpacked together since college.

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