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Four Color Life

by SJHundak/S.J.Willing

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Back at my apartment, a dreary room in the statutory beige, I carefully peeled the pages open, glancing in awe at the rich colors on the paper.

There was a knock on the door.

“Wh-what? Who’s there?”

Panicking I slipped the magazine under the bed pulling back the yellow covers to make it look like I’d been sleeping. I quickly stripped, threw my clothes, shoes and all, in the red chest of drawers, pulled on my pajama pants.

The knock on the door repeated, insistent.

“Wait up, wait up, I’m coming,” I moaned, trying hard to look like someone who’d been pulled out of sleep – not like I’d just been sneaking around in a curfew.

The knock came again, more urgent, sharper.

“Keep your hair on,” I yelled. Damn, they’d found me. Probably been following the dealer for months, picking off the junkies like me. “I’m coming.”

Reluctantly I opened the door. A terrified woman thrust it open, dashed in, shut it behind her.

She was also dressed in the most beautiful non-regulation colors I’d ever seen.

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Average Reader Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

  1. Four Color Life

    MissJonas1492's Buddy Icon MissJonas1492

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    interesting storyline. I like it.

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    Mystiquee's Buddy Icon Mystiquee

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Stories that I like always have something in them I can recite the first time I read them. Non-regulation colors. How kool this character could be to believe in colors her own way not everyone’s approval. I like this -except the drug connection, but that is my personal choice.

  3. Four Color Life

    Mystiquee's Buddy Icon Mystiquee

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Stories that I like always have something in them I can recite the first time I read them. Non-regulation colors. How kool this character could be to believe in colors her own way not everyone’s approval. I like this -except the drug connection, but that is my personal choice.

  4. Four Color Life

    Nick's Buddy Icon Nick

    Posted about 1 year ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Harboring a fugitive is a nice turn; good call. And, Mystiquee, if you read my original tale this a sequel to then you’d know those aren’t drugs he’s talking about… rather comic books.

  5. Four Color Life

    Saint Chuck's Buddy Icon Saint Chuck

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I like the interesting plot. Makes you want to read more.

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