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Submitted to Contest #235
“You need to seriously look at your life and figure out where you’re going.” “Y’know at some stage you’re going to have to settle down.” “The old biological clock doesn’t wait for anyone.” I’d heard them all. And I’d heard them from all directions. From my elderly aunts - shrivelled, desiccated women - as if they were ones to talk. They weren’t the best adverts for life. From some know-it-all friends (although calling them friends might be stretching it), who flaunted bald babies attached to their nipples like a badge of hon...
The wicked fairy pointed her gnarly magic wand at me and delivered her curse. “You will never run again,” she spat, as the hair on the wart on her chin wobbled with the force of her words. “For all your sins, your slovenly ways… Your punishment is that you will never run again!” Well… that’s not exactly how it went down. In actual fact the wicked fairy was a condescending orthopaedic surgeon, who looked at me down his haughty nose as he made his pronouncement. “I don’t know what part of stupid you don’t unde...
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