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Submitted to Contest #337
Cockroaches can live for a week without a head.A cockroach can hold its breath for forty minutes to retain water.A female ootheca can hatch close to fifty nymphs.They can go up to a month without any food. Ahmed knows more than this. These are just the facts that translate well. The ones that make people recoil slightly, step back, scratch their arms as if something is crawling on them. These are just a few of the cockroach facts in Ahmed’s head that made him the undisputed cockroach king in all of Auckland. A title he wears with pride, wear...
Submitted to Contest #253
-But are you doing ok…You backspace on the WhatsApp text as the turning in your stomach tells you that this is why you are sitting on this old sofa in your colleague’s converted garage in the first place.The money from the house being sold had been transferred into your bank account earlier that day and you are treating yourself to a delicious serving of fish and chips you got delivered by Uber Eats. The delivery driver was from Somalia, who got citizenship through asylum as his family was murdered in Mogadishu in 2013. His name was Mo....
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