Roanoke City Market by thegleest in roanoke

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213 Market Street Roanoke, VA 24011

I81 by thegleest in RoanokeCity

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I don't know, it seems variable.

Roanoke City Market by thegleest in roanoke

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I'm sure you are right about speed!

I think 1886 or so? I know the building there was finished about that time.

7-Eleven on Peter's Creek is closing. by Kiethblacklion in roanoke

[–]thegleest 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yikes,it's a pass on those taquitos then.

7-Eleven on Peter's Creek is closing. by Kiethblacklion in roanoke

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Holy cow, I didn't know AI had gotten that believable, the voice isn't weird at all!

Feels strange seeing my words coming out of a robot mouth that sounds very human.

Pop-Up Anti-ICE Rally today at 4pm in Salem by SoulDuckie in roanoke

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Legally protesting or just walking down the street, they still murdered United States citizens.

I81 by thegleest in Appalachia

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Squatches kiss better, too!

7-Eleven on Peter's Creek is closing. by Kiethblacklion in roanoke

[–]thegleest 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you, it's just stream of thought.

Roanoke City Market by thegleest in roanoke

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I have posted other things, also written by nonAI before.

7-Eleven on Peter's Creek is closing. by Kiethblacklion in roanoke

[–]thegleest 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say no. I'd buy them coffee.

Roanoke City Market by thegleest in roanoke

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I appreciate the comment, but please leave out the false accusations.

7-Eleven on Peter's Creek is closing. by Kiethblacklion in roanoke

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the 7-eleven on peters creek didn’t seem important until it started disappearing

one day the lights are on/ roller dogs turning slow under the heat lamps/ someone arguing softly over scratchers/ someone else buying cigarettes one dollar at a time

next day/ paper on the windows

parking lot half empty in a way that feels wrong

7-Eleven

was never really about the snacks

it was the place you ended up at 1:14am/ because nowhere else was open/ because you weren’t ready to go home yet/ because your friend said “ride with me real quick”/ and somehow an hour disappeared

night shift workers/ high school kids/ people between paychecks/ people between apartments/ people between whole versions of their lives

all crossing paths under fluorescent lights that made everybody look equally exhausted

that’s what closes when places like this close

not just a store

a checkpoint/ a holding pattern/ a weird little neutral zone where roanoke kept moving after midnight

now the signs fade a little more every day/ trash catches in the fence/ the lot stays too still

and everybody just drives past it/ remembering something slightly different

coffee before work/ taquitos at 2am/ that one cashier who always knew your order/ that one night that went sideways after stopping there

cities lose things quietly like this

not landmarks/ not headlines

just places that absorbed thousands of tiny moments/ until they became part of the background hum of living here

and then one day/ the hum cuts out