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Weekly Contest #203
A Note on Cleaning and MaintenanceBy Katherine WestermannDear New Owners, Mr. McJay, always the professional, wearing the kindly whatever-you-prefer-ma’am smile of a true salesman, dissuaded me from meeting you, or any of this home’s prospective buyers in person, so we are perfect strangers. Let me introduce myself: Elsa Frip; ninety-eight years young; never mind the cane, never mind the palsy, make no fuss about The Eye! The Eye has been a problem since 1934 when I mistook rubbing alcohol for water and cooked some brain...
Weekly Contest #181
Monkey Watching the Sea by Katherine Westermann When my husband said a mountaintop resort, I hadn’t pictured so much walking. Or so much damp. The world is grey and crowded inside this heavy fog. Over fifty of us are climbing a narrow trail to the ‘Monkey Watching the Sea’ viewpoint, named for a monkey-shaped rock formation that stares down at the world-famous Huangshan Sea of Clouds. Legend has it, the monkey’s view grants Clarity. We shuffle up the trail at an invalid’s pace....
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