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Weekly Contest #285
Like an ominous warning that life as we knew it could end at any moment, the grocery store’s Mazak crackled amid the humming fluorescent lights overhead. If anything went wrong with the Y2K transition, we could be plunged into chaos. An unimaginable apocalypse might begin at midnight.I checked my watch: 11:15 PM. Only forty-five minutes left to grab essentials and prepare for the worst. I looked down at my laden cart and realized one thing was missing: toilet paper.Oh no. The picked-over and scattered bins of fruits and vegetables sent my he...
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