Empty Chair

A Short Story

Cecil Adkins
Nov 2 · 14 min read

need to spend more time with the kids.

How many times did I think that, as I finished up a marathon gaming session of one of the two online role-playing games that I took as seriously as I did my job? How many times did I think that, and then went on to ignore them as I mindlessly browsed massive amounts of meaningless data from my favorite websites?

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Cecil Adkins

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