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Submitted to Contest #160
Whistling arguments The kettle slowly started to whistle lightly. The pressure in the room, much like the pressure in the kettle was reaching its boiling point. He just sat there, like a lump of mud taking up space. She ignored the noise and kept rambling. She didn’t really need other participants to the argument. She never listened anyway; she had already decided the issue before even sitting at the kitchen table anyway. The argument was simply a dog and pony show which had to end with the rest of us bending to her will and doing what she...
Submitted to Contest #158
It was about half-way through January, the coldest time of the year. Thankfully, it wasn’t raining, and there wasn’t really any wind to speak of. She had told her husband she was meeting her friend Jane in the city, and it was Friday, so he would not suspect anything out of the ordinary. Jane and she had been going into the city on their weekly shopping trips for so many years now, who was to say this one would be different. She was free then, to have her five minutes and set her plans without anyone being the wiser. She parked the Range R...
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