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Interracial|Night at the Bar|Down on Luck |

Unforgettable; Chapter One: Night Out

Alexander Martin
Crush Publications
Published in
5 min readSep 5, 2024

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“You look like you needed that,” the bartender said.

“Yeah,” I sighed as I looked at the empty glass. “Rough two weeks.”

“Another?” he asked.

“Sure, why not,” I replied.

He refilled it and went on his way.

First, I found out that my wife of ten years had been cheating on me with my brother and that the son I had been raising for the past seven years was his and not mine. Then I got laid off from work.

Putting it all together and making things make sense had been rough. I stared into the glass and put it to my mouth.

“Thanks,” I said as I paid my tab.

I wasn’t about to spend half my paycheck on alcohol, especially since I didn’t have a job at the moment.

“There you are!” A dark-skinned lady with long black hair approached me.

“Yup,” I smiled as she wrapped her arm around me.

My mother always taught me that if a strange woman ever approached me and acted like she…

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