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Submitted to Contest #325
It begins in the worst way possible.For starters, it’s 1.30 in the morning, which, if you ask me, should have no place on the clock. Too late to go back to sleep, too early to start doing anything productive.And boy, do I need to be productive right now.Actually, the whole reason I’m here alone at 1 a.m. is ‘productivity’ — or that’s what they call it.Ammonia combustion tests can’t happen in daylight, not with innocent people still swarming the university corridors. Too toxic — a few ppm and someone could pass out.So, the newbie Ph.D. studen...
Submitted to Contest #323
Rhona Lewis – 1954-2025 – Beloved wife and motherMartha whispered the words before placing the flowers in the plastic holder, as she had done every afternoon at 3 p.m. sharp in her newfound ritual since her mother’s death the Sunday before.Watching her breath condense in small clouds fading away in the afternoon mist, she wondered if Rhona had really been a beloved wife. The engraver had looked at her puzzledly after reading the sentence she had scrawled in an uncertain handwriting on the half‑filled form on his desk.‘Just Beloved mother?‘ H...
Submitted to Contest #321
“Conrad! Conrad, dear, come and have a look for yourself!”My wife’s voice reaches me as I push the patio door open with my shoulder, precariously balancing a tray of lemonade glasses in my shaking hands.I pause and glance for a moment at the amusing sight she makes, a plump figure squatting down on the grass, her face partially shadowed by the ridiculous large-brimmed straw hat I insisted on placing over her white curls earlier that morning.She turns and stares at me. “Don’t you think they’re simply marvellous?” she gasps, her eyes two glitt...
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