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Submitted to Contest #282
Dear— Well, no, not that dear. I don’t want you harboring delusions about me. So, greetings: I’m sending you this epistolatory apology because I can’t stand the thought of groveling in person before you while you regard me from your exalted height, deciding whether my apology is adequate. I honestly can’t stand the idea that I have to apologize at all. But I know that in order to keep my position, menial as it is, I’m obligated to afuckingpologize. Thus, this apologia. I’m sorry. I’m really, really, really, REALLY sorry. Okay? ...
Submitted to Contest #227
FIRST SNOW The first snow came late, that year. Therefore the new folk of the upper valley got lured into a pleasant illusion that the living was easy. October had been gorgeous, and November had been just lightly rainy, so they’d been able to get the roofing tin on and the log walls chinked with mud and dry grass. The woodpile looked like more than enough to last till spring. Erma, the wife, stood at the window watching the enormous whirling flakes fill the whole sky. “Now, that’s pretty,” she remarked to no one. “I do love snow.” They a...
Submitted to Contest #210
HOW HUMANS EXCHANGE INFORMATION A report by exprmntl rsrchr #FIC137 I wish the subject of this report could have been ‘How Humans Reproduce,’ since that was, of all my experiences, the one that sticks with me. And I may be able to dovetail it in eventually, because I know my colleagues really want to hear about it. After all, they’re only human![1] Lol.[2] Meanwhile, I’ll at least pretend I’m focused upon my assigned topic: the exchange of information. After so many months—years it was, in human terms—of humanoid training, I was...
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