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Weekly Contest #366
My old friend Mika called me up one night and I cut my thumb on my cracked phone screen trying to answer him. ‘I’m going to become a cab driver,’ he said. ‘Oh, really?’ I mumbled. I studied my thumb. It was bleeding slightly. The rain watered it down to a thin, suspicious substance. A few wet droplets of my blood formed under Mika’s name on my screen. He was always telling me about strange ideas he’d had since he graduated from university unemployed. Last time, he was dead set on becoming a journalist, but he struggled to compreh...
Shortlisted for Contest #334 ⭐️
Dangling limply across the makeshift walls of the office cubicles, a paper chain made from scrap paperwork was severed at the middle. Perhaps the gluestick that had been used to haphazardly string it together was dried up. Maybe someone tore it by accident. I’d probably never find out. There were plenty of things you’d never know in your life, be it minute, inconsequential happenings such as this one, or indelible unknowns, like if that person years ago truly did like you back. You still wonder, regardless, and perhaps to the same extent equ...
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