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Weekly Contest #374
Sensitive content: Drug reference and violence The G20 Helicopters crisscross the sky, and a small prop airplane orbits above them. Within three concentric security fences, in the Pittsburgh convention center, finance ministers and trade secretaries of the world’s most powerful countries and trade blocs collude to manage the world’s economic affairs. The negotiated outcome of the meeting will, they intend, keep the system from changing too fast, because the system works spectacularly well for them. Young Pennsylvania national guardsmen file...
Weekly Contest #369
The Inheritance Tom goes through a three weeks’ backlog of mail. “Bill, bill, eviction notice … coupon for 15% off a three-credit online course in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy,” Tom flips the advertisement, “addressed to Sambhunath Samantray or Current Resident.” Tom tosses the advertisement in the discard pile, and continues browsing the mail. “A letter from Mississippi,” Tom narrates. “Addressed to Sambhunath?” inquires Tim. “Addressed to me,” wonders Tom. “Oh, it’s dear old Great Aunt Lucy,” he realizes. “I haven’t seen her, or talked...
Weekly Contest #365
The Witch or Undermining the patriarchy is a dangerous business The problem wasn’t so much that I was a witch, as that I was a strong, independent woman. After all, witches have been revered and reviled, in turn, in all societies throughout human history. One century, in one place, we would be called upon to heal the sick and to fructify the harvest, and the next century, we would be hunted and executed summarily. That is quite unfair, I might add, given that witches have clearly outperformed priests as healers and stewards of the crop. B...
Weekly Contest #360
A Journey There was once an ordinary 21st century American man. He lived, in America, a life of utmost ordinariness, this being the time immediately preceding the Great Calamity. He was young, friendly, funny, and tolerably unhappy, and he would have continued living this ordinary experience if his innate curiosity hadn’t pulled him to a less gratifying path. His ordinary condition was characterized by material plenty, social estrangement, and a constant, generalized, low-level anxiety that was always present when he looked for it. Furthe...
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