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Submitted to Contest #120
Tomorrow will be the day. I won’t sleep well. I’ll be a bloody grump because of it. Still, people much worse off than me. Bout of shit sleep never hurt no one. Shouldn’t complain. I’ll get to check the forecast on ZB early though so that’ll be something.Steve’ll pick me up at 6:30am. He’ll call from his truck twice that I’m a ‘plonker’ and then blast the horn if he thinks I take too long to get out the door. God forbid I do. Pauline’ll just about have bloody heart failure. He knows better with our Pauline, does Steve. But he likes giving her...
Submitted to Contest #119
“Listen,” the old man said again. “They are talking to you.” Both boys could see the smug expressions on the two specifically pointed out faces easily. It wasn’t hard. They were less than a metre away from the glass cabinet that housed the ancient photographs of dead-stared students all in their pressed uniforms and the ubiquitous side part. ‘Seeing’ wasn’t the issue. Relevance was. The old man looming behind them like some Tolkensian giant was the principal of Hegley High. Apart from his ridiculous height he was the most unremarkable ma...
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