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Weekly Contest #368
Number B-142By eleven-thirty on Tuesdays, the Department of Motor Vehicles had usually misplaced at least one person’s name. Names slid off applications. Addresses changed themselves in the printer tray. Dates of birth migrated by a year or two when nobody was looking.Most employees blamed the machines. I knew better.The building had moods. On humid days, the ticket dispenser printed numbers warm and slightly damp at the edges. The vision-test lenses fogged for people refusing to look directly at something. The camera at Station Four had onc...
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