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Weekly Contest #348
Hunting season had just opened its hostilities.His cap jammed down on his head, his hair sticking out from every side as though trying to flee the skull that housed it, his ruddy nose far too visible for his liking, but what could he do about it, really, and anyone who had something to say about it could go to hell. Mark filled his pockets with ammunition with particular care, picked up his rifle, and set off at a steady pace toward the vast expanse that opened before him.It was cold that day.He was shaking quite a bit, which was obviously b...
Weekly Contest #347
O Your Majesty, I’m infinitely honored to stand in your illustrious presence and to have been granted permission to trouble your night with my words. What I am about to tell you will have neither the splendor of your heroes’ exploits, nor the sweetness of your ladies-in-waiting’s tales, nor even the accuracy of your bards’ songs.No, the story I must tell you tonight, at this late hour, is sorrowful in many respects. It isn’t here to flatter pride, nor to absolve sins. This story is a warning to those who still believe that kindness alone suf...
Weekly Contest #346
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'm going to the kitchen. A scent of rhubarb fills the whole house. Except that doesn’t really help me, ...
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,...
“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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