Drowning under a mountain of clichés
she wished that she had cultivated
an art contest -- or would it be as bad?
"Ugh, it's going to be a long summer", she thought
as the contest entries piled up. "Can't cancel it now,
it'll be a shit-storm."
Then brought up Candy Crush on her phone
Author notes: Thought it might be fun to work all the prompt words into the story: dependence, summer, cultivation, mountain, storm If you're wondering about the title, here's Pavlov, and I thought of him because of "dependence" in the prompt above: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ivan-Pavlov https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783920-Wednesday-Word-for-July-2021
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