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This Week’s 53-Word Story Winner Is: Micah Ling

Congratulations to Micah Ling, whose story, “The First Time I Ate Lobster,” appears below. Micah wins the Press 53 publication of her choice. Thank you to everyone else who entered, and keep those entries coming! 

The First Time I Ate Lobster

I’ve never done this. I mean…well, whatever. But I’m happy. I am.  

Yeah, totally. Me too. 

He meant with his life, I only meant with that moment. I wasn’t happy, that’s why I was there, climbing on the back of a motorcycle to ride up to Maine: to eat lobster, with this man. 

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