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Submitted to Contest #31
The housekeeper let out a deep breath. The early rush for breakfast was over. Thankfully. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop had left for work. Alex and Mel had left to catch their bus to school. Now there was only young Nicky for Monica to deal with, and Nicky was really no trouble at all. As housekeeping jobs go, this was a pretty good gig. Monica knew that. Her routine was to arrive early, prepare breakfast, spend the day doing chores, prepare the evening meal ready for the oven or the microwave depending ...
Submitted to Contest #32
They’d made it into Barandilla not long after sunset. You couldn’t call Barandilla a town. It didn’t even appear on a lot of maps. On a lonely stretch of the highway running through the Central Australian desert, it had a pub, two petrol pumps – one of which had an ‘Out Of Order’ sign that had hung on it so long it had almost faded to illegibility – and a stray dog. ‘Bob’s Hotel’ served as a rest stop for passing trucks and the occasional drover, and a social hub for folks from the surrounding cattle stations. ...
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