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Weekly Contest #344
The desk alone tells me I’m way out of my league. I never knew a place could smell of money, but alas, here we are. The air is cool and faintly perfumed, something floral and expensive drifting through the lobby. The marble floors shine so brightly I can see the reflection of my scuffed sneakers staring back at me. "Can I help you?" A manicured woman with a platinum blonde bob peers down at me from behind the vast curved desk. Her clinical white badge says Susan. She looks more like a Vivien to me."The whole shebang," I reply.Susan’s eyes tr...
Weekly Contest #337
I am afraid of the woman next door. Though, not for reasons you’d expect. She isn’t frightening. Far from it, actually. She’s tiny and elderly, and wears these floral smock dresses that could have been cut from my mother’s curtains. She wears large silver glasses which magnify her eyes, and I suspect she wears dentures, just like me. She is, in every sense, the embodiment of innocence. You couldn’t imagine a more harmless looking neighbour. But that’s not why I’m afraid of her. The woman next door is watching me. She's always watching me. An...
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