Sebastian Pearce – Flash Fiction and Sports Betting. What can go wrong?

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• Stories for FREE You, Implicated

  

  Comfort Strategies

  A story by Sebastian Pearce based on the WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: You wake at 6:47 AM, three minutes before your alarm. This is strategy number one: train your circadian rhythm to anticipate necessity. No jarring sounds, no cortisol spike. Just the gentle emergence from sleep like surfacing from warm…

  July 9, 2025
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  The Wake Up Call

  The headaches started three weeks after I quit drinking coffee. At first, I blamed caffeine withdrawal, though the timeline seemed off. The pain would hit precisely at 3:47 AM, yanking me from sleep with the sensation of ice picks behind my eyes. My doctor ran tests, found nothing, and suggested…

  July 9, 2025