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Submitted to Contest #328
A Day’s Outing Golly, I can’t believe she’s still lying in bed. Not great judging by the open bottle of tranquillisers on her side table. How on earth is she going to cope today?‘Elsie…Elsie…Elsie you have to get up now’. Nothing, except the voice of a fly somewhere behind the faded curtains. Only the village idiot would have volunteered to help her through the proceedings. I was that idiot so I’d better get on with it. I took both her hands and helped her edge her way down from her bed. She would have fallen had I not managed to catch her i...
Submitted to Contest #322
VIOLA She has been lying in the labour ward for a full day, but still baby refuses to move.‘Wretched child is determined to spite me ‘she mutters under her breath.For the umpteenth time the nurse peeps round the curtain: ‘Doctor is here, he is going to induce you to hurry it up, we need this bed for the next patient’ spoken with a grimace.‘Good evening’ His greeting is abrupt. Grace is holding up his carefully planned schedule. In two tics he sets up the drip and both leave without a word to the reluctant mother.*Footsteps arrive in the pass...
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