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Submitted to Contest #72
Detective Charles Osbourn was sitting in his armchair, sipping coffee from a decorated earthen mug on a regular Thursday morning, in the company of his tape recorder when the telephone rang. He and his wife had become immune to it ringing every morning, exactly at this hour. Despite submitting tens of written applications for a mistaken swapping of numbers with the news agency in the directory, nobody cooperated to make the desired changes. Although it was no news that Charles himself could get anything done, he preferred not to misuse his s...
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