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Weekly Contest #37
I was a virile young man of eighteen; he was a feeble old man, well into his seventies; he definitely was no match for me!I pressed my back against the wall and waited for the old man to come round the corner; as soon as he did I grabbed him. I could feel his skeletal body beneath his clean but well-worn grey striped t-shirt.Speaking in Afrikaans, my mother tongue, I screamed "Wat wil jy he, ou man?" What do you want, old man? I gave him a good shake. He looked petrified. Who wouldn't be? Not only was I a strapping young man but a...
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