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Weekly Contest #343
We were there at your birth. How small and frail you were, straddling from thy first moment that finest line betwixt the world of the living and the dead: how poetic. Behold thy pale red visage, this was your entrance to life, the beginning of thy end. Watch how you squirm; how cold it must have been in that contraption, how harsh to be surrounded by the incessant beeping and chittering of machines you were yet to understand. Perhaps thy solitude began there, stolen from the warm embrace of a mother, but alas, you were too weak even to breat...
Weekly Contest #340
The shop was so quiet, Jean swore he could hear the electric clock, which he eyed with trepidation as it ticked on and on, finally reaching 5:00 P.M. The instant the clock turned over, he rose from an old, ragged stool and sauntered over to the front door of the shop, flipping the sign delicately from open to closed. He let out a sigh. “Another slow day. I don’t think even a single person came in.” His colleague, Mike, who seemed amused, replied. “Look on the bright side, Jean, we’re getting another day’s pay without any work.” He looked ...
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