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Submitted to Contest #288
Pack the most important parts of your twenty-six years into this two-feet-by-one-foot-by-one-foot box. Clothes? No, we’ll provide you with all the essentials. Pillow, razor, all that. Pack anything personal you want to bring along, maybe something to keep you entertained on the trip. No combustibles, firearms, or compressed gases, nothing with a lithium or graphene cells, et cetera. Here’s your trunk - number seventy-two. You’d best remember that for the trip, everyone’s looks the same. Take care Mr. Thompson, don’t be late for check-in.&nbs...
Submitted to Contest #200
A breath of wind ghosted through the open office window, rattling the skeletal array of printed papers taped and tacked to the opposite wall. For a moment, the paper bones cracked with life, animated by the cigarette-and-saxophone city air, but presently the wind withdrew to whisper elsewhere, and the pages slumped stiff and lifeless back against the wall. A few more bones and an arrest to give flesh, and this skeleton would be ready to testify in court, and restore peace to a restless city. Printed upon the dead-white of each page was a sc...
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