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Submitted to Contest #330
Callum looks up from his desk and asks the novitiate to repeat the question. She is a short, brusque woman some twenty-five years younger than he, in a crisp dress shirt and pleated skirt in various shades of inclement weather. She has swept into the office as part of a wave of new hires over the last three months, the influx generated by the Chancellor’s decree on measured practice, and her commitment to practical efficiency reflects this. She is, in other words, not predisposed to repeating herself. But Callum, truth be told, wasn’t listen...
Submitted to Contest #325
Daddy says to put my jeans legs in my boots for the hookworm. The water’s been up past my socks since five this morning, maybe a little higher now. But even though I’ve been glued to the couch back all that time, watching the dark basement apartment start to float, kept my whole body well shy of the grass blades and asphalt pebbles, the drifting corpses of crickets and palmetto bugs and the occasional small squirrel—even though I’ve been careful, he still keeps jabbing a work-gloved paw at me and shouting for me to stay put. When I ask him, ...
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