A Day's Work
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We all have jobs that we do to survive. For most of us the survival part of this is earning money to pay for our food, home, and other necessities in life. But, for her, the job was more. Her survival depended on it in a whole different way. Her life hung on the thread of a day's work.
Previously Published in the Sci-fi magazine, "The Quarenzine" for California State University, Fullerton.
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