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THE MANAGER

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“I'm out. Enough for me,” said 44-year-old Tanisha Reynolds. “I've done everything I need to do to make sure I'm good on my own.” The other women at the table smiled. “Finally making that move, huh?” Kendra Manning asked with a smirk. Tanisha nodded. “Yep. I have an appointment with the lawyer on Thursday,” she said. This surprised everyone. Tori Jackson's eyes got big. She worked with Tanisha for the PG County Government and had known Tanisha since grade school. “Oh my God, you're serious this time, aren’t you?” Tori asked. “Hell yeah! I'm tired of this,” Tanisha said, her voice filled with exasperation. As if on cue, her mobile phone rang and she looked at it. She rolled her eyes when she saw it was her husband calling. She sent the call to voicemail. The others were watching her. Tanisha stared back. “It was just the Manager,” she said. Everyone laughed. Lisa Cortez, a plump, curvy, married woman, shook her head. She had known Tanisha since T...
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THE WHALE

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It’s my fault, 42-year-old Jacques Allen thought. I was the class clown in school, too. I rubbed off on him. Jacques hung up the call he just received from his son’s school. He would need to talk with the boy soon. His son, Chris, was 10 and in the 5th grade at Towson Middle School. He lived with his mother in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Jacques also lived in Wesley Chapel, about 15 minutes away from his son. He was divorced from Chris’s mother after three years of marriage. Jacques’s ex-wife, Claudia, was German and had Chris after meeting Jacques during his tour there. He married her and relocated his family to Florida. Jacques was honorably discharged from the Army and went to work for a regional telecommunications company. He tried to make a good life for Claudia and Chris but she missed her native country and didn’t adjust well. Their marriage fell apart and Claudia was given primary custody of Chris. Jacques did not allow her to take him back to Germany. One ...
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