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Submitted to Contest #322
The hospital lights never slept. They hummed in that flat, fluorescent way that made everyone look washed out. Machines kept their own beat: beep, hiss, beep, as if the building was breathing for people who could not.Seventeen-year-old Nick Carlisle slouched in a plastic chair by the ICU window with a folded flyer in his fist: North American Combative Championship: One Night Only. His name was already printed. His father had seen to that. Every time Nick read the title, his chest tightened like the cage door had already slammed shut.He was n...
Submitted to Contest #140
`"It seemed like yesterday," the man told his son. "I had a similar incident when I was in the war in Afghanistan. We didn’t fight the enemy with video games, back in my day. We were boots on the ground. "Dad, we don’t fight them with video games." "We use an Intelligent War-fighting Autonomous Reaction Force, or IWAR, for short," said the son. They might as well be video games; you watch them on your fancy screens and don’t even get your hands dirty. Although it is not a bad thing to keep our boys from ...
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