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Kendall Defoe

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Disaster Relief

“And that’s that.”I had to make sure the tea hit the table before he finished his sad story. I had all the deets I needed to figure out why he was so nervous, but there was always a little bit more to add to the mix.Michael… Michael, Michael, Michael… I had known him since elementary school and he was brought in as a new student I had to show around the school in grade two. I saw him attempt to play all kinds of sports – he had a strange obsession with volleyball – and talk to all kinds of people who wanted nothing to do with him. Those peop...

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5 x 5?

Weekly Contest #286

1.     Patricia and the schoolyard:I first saw her at Our Lady of Perpetual Agony when we were both about begin grade one. Ms. Pappercock was a kind lady, and she looked upon me with some favour when she saw how well I could keep my handwriting within the lines of the notebooks she handed out. And that might have been the reason why she put Patricia next to me in the classroom after the first month passed. A lot of people thought this was odd, but I remembered that she organized the class according to the grades we r...

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Tracking

I’m really beginning to understand how unfair life can be.And I’m not old. I am so sick of hearing that. “Old technology.” “All too lo-fi.” “Something my uncle or grandfather would have used back in the day.” They never say the same thing about cars or even cameras. Give them a few decades, and they all become classics. A few of those same decades on me, and they want to put me in a landfill with all of my brothers and sisters.Yes, I am a videocassette recorder, or what you plebes call a “VCR”.You really don’t understand how embarrassing and...

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The Mountain

Weekly Contest #285

From an abandoned tape recording:You might think I’m creepy, future people who find this, but I don’t know what’s gonna happen tomorrow. Everyone here is freaking out over Y2K, and I don’t trust anything connected to computers to save this info. I could write this down later – that’s a plan – so maybe this isn’t such a bad idea. And J. said she’d call me soon so that we could head up. But let me talk about what’s happening here.We are in Tokyo and we are panicking. I have never seen that many people worried about one thing at once: mana...

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

“Platform Number Four, now boarding.”He was a cynic, but there was nothing now that could possibly ruin his trip home. The plane that took him across a time zone had faced very little turbulence, and he knew that this was helping with his fear of heights. The therapist’s suggestion that he fly back was actually useful (better than that nonsense about opening up to people). He had a good flight with no alcohol necessary, and he even took an air-sickness bag as a memento (strange little collection he had now). No, he was simply one bus ride aw...

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May I Borrow Your Pen?

 “I’m sorry.”Michael had a very busy morning and was looking forward to the break. Always on the Monday with the big orders, and he did not want any of the new people handing the transactions, especially some of the new faces that he saw down in the warehouse. Didn’t anyone in human resources care as much about the vetting process as he did? They could laugh all they wanted to – blue collar bums, he called them – but one day this was seriously going to backfire on us and then...“I’m sorry.”At least he had time to get out of that grey ha...

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A Kind of Magic...

Weekly Contest #281

Okay, this is really not my fault.I am now in a very different spot than I’m used to (buzz). And I really did not expect the screaming and the trip through the air like that (buzz buzz). So dark, too…But let me talk a little about myself and you might have a bit of sympathy about my plight.Buzz…Many years back (buzz), according to my manufacture date, I was put together in a factory in (buzz) a country that many of you read about online, and yet know so little about. It may seem strange that I can remember my (buzz) date of birth – such a st...

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Globe

Weekly Contest #281

Please, please come in. You can put your coat on the stand by the door.Would you like some coffee or tea? I have a kettle that is electric and they tell me that things are better when life goes faster. I'm not sure.Okay, I was expecting you earlier, but that does not matter. I seem to have more than a day to finish everything before they pack up my life and forget about me.No, I don’t mean you. I called you for a reason.They are not taking everything, you know. I decided a long time ago to make sure that certain things would not just disappe...

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My Dinner with Android

Weekly Contest #280

-Hello!-Hello… um, do we really need those hyphens? They seem pretty redundant…Okay, okay. I just thought that it would make things easier to trace if we wanted to keep a record of what we talked about.Forward thinking… Okay, let’s try something else.Like what?·        How about this?·        Okay, not bad. It is much clearer that way, and we can easily just go back by following the dots.·        We can connect them, as you...

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What I Did Before My Summer Vacation

Weekly Contest #280

Was it all my fault? I saw her arm rise, bent and coming up fast, with the fingers tight in what looked like a claw more than a fist and her face was beyond tense. Like she knew what she had to do. I was happy about that because I thought that I deserved whatever she had to dish out, since I had been a dumbass for most of the year. She was only responding with anger to my mistakes, doing what I may have done (shoe and the other foot). At least we dated.          &nbsp...

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Spot

Weekly Contest #278

I saw it all…A disturbing event took place at the Smith house. It was the season where the clouds and sky grew dark very early, but families that could find warmth and comfort in each other’s company were celebrating with food, drinks, television, certain video-gaming systems, and sports. Oh, the sports were always a part of the Smith family. Basketball fans turned into baseball fans; baseball fans turned into football fans; hockey was accepted as the greatest of all physical distractions, especially when they felt the cold and could underst...

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On the Run

Weekly Contest #276

This is the confession of an addict. I will admit that I have spent a lot of time not writing about my love of jogging, or running (both words mean different things to me; I will explain them later). Running was one of the things in my life that I came to completely on my own. It was never something that I was encouraged to do. I never did track and field in school (never even made it onto a team of any kind). I saw no one in my family who enjoyed going for a run. And it was not something that I ever suspected would change my life. But it ha...

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Routine

Weekly Contest #275

“Better late than never...” He was smiling. This was a joy that he could not explain. He woke extra early that morning, putting away a warm glass of lemon and mint water with the granola bar that he knew gave him an edge as he jogged on the paths nearby. Today was the start of what was going to be a very long week, so sidewalks and dirt trails would not be enough. He would have to use the track near the school. This meant leaving a little extra early to do at least four laps and then head home. A slow jog and a few indifferent traffic lights...

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The Request

Weekly Contest #273

“Hear me, oh master, as we submit to your will for our meager and groveling desires! We beg and ask you to feel our souls as they bend and call to you, oh master, for your mercy and favor upon us now!“We beg you to hear the thoughts of us all: Kevin, Robert, Dave with the Beard, Dave without the Beard, Steve and Stephen, Roger, and…yes, my little brother, Brian.“We have brought ourselves to this place on this very cold and difficult day to ask you for your assistance oh master…and please respond pretty quickly because my brother is driving m...

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Dreaming

Weekly Contest #272

The boy woke up with a shudder, sweaty and scared. For the last few months, at least once a week, he had been having the exact same dream: a cabin; a light; no one else around. Why was this happening to him again?He turned on a small lamp beside his bed.“Mom!”He shouted at the open door and waited. She was a patient woman and knew that something like this was bound to repeat itself. She woke up from her light sleep, put on her slippers and trudged down the hallway. Her perfume entered the room before she seemed to float inside.“Another one?”...

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