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Monday, July 21, 2025

Game Over - a short story

 Game Over (Fiction 101 Series)

With pockets full of quarters, the boys filled their imaginations with decorated pixels. It was 1983. The girls were there to watch the boys, mostly. Ali was there to watch them all. To observe. She always had a few boys watch her play. One boy brought her a Hershey bar. She took her eyes off the screen for a second and her last space ship blew up. It was the first time she needed a second quarter. She walked outside. The boy followed. Something caught her attention. She looked up and through a rogue cloud she saw the words, Game Over.

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