Till drawercounted twice nowcoins stacked in paper rolls,the register hums, goes quiet —good night.
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Mara Okonkwo26 October 2026
"the register hums, goes quiet — good night." five lines and the whole shift is in my body. this is the quietest kind of exhausted, and you nailed it.