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Weekly Contest #342
My husband has become a grumpy old fart. He hasn’t spoken nicely to me for a long time. Getting older affects people like that sometimes. ‘The broccoli is cold,’ he says tonight. ‘So whose fault is that? I gave you a ten minute dinner warning but you plodded in half an hour later.’ ‘That’s what microwaves are for. So you can finish what you were doing. You can’t just stop painting mid-stroke, you know.’ To remind him that I always have dinner on the table at six on the dot - as he demands - would be a waste of breath. For the same reason I...
Weekly Contest #341
[Contains references to fictional people who have died, including a newborn.] Dearest Mum,It’s weird writing to you - as you passed on years ago - but it’s a writing class exercise, so here goes. Life is pretty much OK these days. My admin job’s going great, relationship ditto, kids also (grown up now), grandkids chaotic but great, too. Not sure how your life is, Mum, wherever you are. (Joke!)Stella XXX Dear Mum,All these years later, huh? Memories keep dribbling in…Stella XXX Dear Mum,I can’t believe you gave up on me.Stella XX Dear Mum,I ...
Weekly Contest #340
NB: Minimal references to (non-violent) consensual sexual behaviour in a humorous context. ———- ’Feles in matta sedit’. It sounds better in Latin than the clichéd saying, ‘the cat sat on the mat’. I, the ‘Feles’ in question, am sprawling on the ‘matta’, not averse to tripping up anyone silly enough not to look where they’re going. Something weird is going on in this household. To explain, I need to take you back to last Monday. Breakfast. Imagine the scene. ‘Nerdy Daughter’ is practising her Latin out loud, to annoy her brother, (whom I h...
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