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Submitted to Contest #331
I feel uneasy getting into bed. It’s been a troublesome day. My plans are unravelling, and I'm really starting to panic. The problem with being a practical scientist is that I can only stop worrying about work by being in the Lab – trying to fix things. Once I get into bed, I become agitated and unable to rest.I do have one trick that helps me to get to sleep. I start to plot a story. It started out with dreaming up bedtime stories for my son, Oliver – the darker the better! At first, I'd make them up on the fly, based on well-known classics...
Submitted to Contest #330
This is the place where I feel most alive. There is something about the way the clear sky turns deep blue against the fiercely reflective snow that lifts my spirit – a world away from the winter gloom of deepest Surrey. Home has its own attractions, but I feel energised by the Austrian Alps, and the prospect of new off-piste adventures around Zell am See and beyond. I’ve been coming here since I was four with my parents, always to the same apartment. My dad is an architect who designed the block and negotiated four weeks a year for his firm...
Submitted to Contest #252
Double-Take “Please welcome to the show, Mister Tom O’Halloran .......Visionary inventor of Bio-robotics!" On cue, the audience erupts into loud applause as the famous entrepreneur takes to the set, waving and smiling before settling on the sofa opposite the host, Jamie Morton. “You all know Tom – he’s one of the most famous businessmen on the planet. Some say genius and benefactor – the ‘Man of the Age’ as one newspaper called him - some say dangerous narcissist. Either way, after major challenges that would have seen ...
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