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Jami Carey

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Dollar Ten a Pound

Weekly Contest #368

NIGHTCURVE — Season 31, Episode 6 Assembly cut. Never aired. Property of the network. Do not distribute. COLD OPEN[STUDIO. Anchor at desk. Behind him, a graphic: black river, white razor.]HESTER LOWELL: Tonight on Nightcurve — a Vermont town where, in two hundred years, no one has ever drowned. A state investigator found dead in four inches of water. And a book of four thousand names that one prosecutor calls the most frightening thing anybody ever put in his hands. Here's Candace Anning.[AERIAL. A New England town at dusk. The river black a...

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Standing By

Weekly Contest #368

I count things. By the morning of the Meridian Innovation Expo I had walked onto 411 show floors. I keep track the way some people keep box scores. It tells me what kind of day I'm walking into before I've been in the building 10 seconds.Fresh carpet glue means the general contractor finished on time. A quiet hall at doors-minus-40 means I get to walk it once before the crowd gets in. A screeching badge printer means registration needs me by nine.At 8:23 a.m., 37 minutes before doors opened on the fourteenth annual Meridian Innovation Expo, ...

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