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Weekly Contest #344
BUG-734: Preschooler countdown timer triggers action at 0.5 seconds remaining Severity: High | Priority: P2 Steps to Reproduce1. Issue reasonable request to Preschooler (put on shoes, pick up toys, come to table)2. Preschooler ignores request3. Parent initiates countdown: "I'm going to count to 5. One… Two…" Expected Results: Preschooler begins task by count of 3. Actual Results: Preschooler remains motionless through counts 1-4. Zero acknowledgment. At approximately 4.9 seconds, Preschooler springs into action, completing task as if it was ...
Weekly Contest #343
Sensitive content: Miscarriage The candles are lit.Someone dims the lights and the room contracts, everyone pressing inward toward Grandma and her nine decades represented by nine flames. Ginny presses in with them. Holds her wine glass. Smiles.Happy birthday to you—Over forty voices singing together in off-tune harmony. The Calhouns always did everything big and loud — family first. Ginny mouths along, shapes the syllables without sound, the way she used to mouth prayers as a kid when she'd forgotten the words but didn't want her mother to ...
Weekly Contest #340
I only have 28 words left.The woman behind the glass taps her long pink nail on the counter between us and stares at me. Waiting for me to speak. The man behind me looks bored. His eyes keep darting between the clock and me while he adjusts his tie.I see a woman five people back talking on the phone. She keeps waving her hand in my direction and looking at the diamond on her finger. A child tugs on her mother’s dress and whispers “What’s wrong with her mommy? Is she almost out?”I've been in line at the Bureau of Citizen Services for 4 hours ...
Weekly Contest #339
Marilyn smiled.Beside her sat her husband of ten years, Adam. Under the table, his hand was on the thigh of her best friend since grade school, Jenna. Both of them were chatting to the others sitting around. Everyone was laughing at the joke Adam told about the housewife and the monkey. Everyone oblivious to him slipping his hand under Jenna’s skirt during the punchline so her gasp felt natural.Marilyn saw.She'd suspected it for weeks, kept telling herself she was paranoid. They just worked together. Marilyn had asked Adam to put in a referr...
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