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Achille K.

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A scent of rhubarb

Some days I wake up old, others I wake up young, and still others when I’m not really sure.It’s not as poetic as it sounds. I mean, everyone sometimes wakes up without knowing the time, without knowing what the day it is. The difference is that I also don’t know the year. Which, let’s face it, complicates things a bit.Today, I’m at my parents’ house, so I'm trying to go by clues. I have a list of them somewhere. Well, I think I had a list.I go into the kitchen. A scent of rhubarb fills the whole house. Except that doesn’t really help me, bec...

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Weekly Contest #345

That night, Luca was on duty at the poison control center’s regulation service. It wasn’t really his specialty. He worked in neuroimaging, far removed from household poisonings and panicked late-night phone calls.His daily routine usually consisted of analyzing MRI and PET scan images, hidden behind a screen, as part of research protocols. Light-years away from what he was supposed to be doing that night.The poison control center was short-staffed, and he had been asked to cover a shift. Of course, he wouldn’t be alone. If any problem arose,...

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Out of Standards

Weekly Contest #345

“Your funding application hasn’t been approved.”Luca turned toward the window and looked out over Lille from the fifth floor, trying not to reread for the thousandth time the same impersonal email that had just swept away months of work.Below, he could see patients entering the hospital, delivery trucks pulling in, and ambulances arriving.“Your funding application hasn’t been approved.”A simple copy-and-paste formula. Even when everything seemed secured, it only took a bureaucratic sentence to remind you that certainty never truly existed.“Y...

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