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Vegaboy
Winner, First Place, First Chapters Contest
“In my opinion, this tweaker was reckless, getting shredded for work doing security detail at the airport, himself responsible for busting other drug people before they boarded. Nonetheless, it didn’t seem like a difficult job to do high. At the moment, he was handing out plastic trays to passengers waiting to have their personal belongings x-rayed and their bodies sent through metal detection. He was getting wet from the drip, a dark stain was spreading on the shoulder of his uniform, but it didn’t deter him. In fact, I saw him position himself so he’d get it down his neck. Later, once I got to know him, I would understand that he would see that kind of thing as sideways luck—a miracle rain, delivered only to him, Vegaboy of the Desert.”