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Weekly Contest #297
WIPE-OUT 1992 words THE little shop on the corner had recently been decorated, the air redolent of fresh paint. The shelves were glossy with magazines; colourful and attractive in neat array, assembled in order as precise and consistent as a military guard of honour. At my feet the banner headlines reflected the tensions of the day, shouting their urgent news from the newspapers at ground-floor level. They stretched, in a well-ordered line, almost the width of the shop - red-tops on the left, broadsheets on the right. There were just two o...
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