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Weekly Contest #219
THE SECURITY GUARD by Annie Hite Thirty five year old Harold Crackwilder, otherwise known as “Bub”, short for “Bubba” due to his stocky physical development, became a security guard in a somewhat dilapidated well-known Catholic hospital. It wasn’t what he really wanted to do. He had started out as a police officer and was fired after two years for lying to a senior officer more than once. The lies weren’t even very good. An example of one of his lousy lies was: he fell asleep after a romantic entanglement and was very late for his shift...
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