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Submitted to Contest #267
187.5 kHz. A storm is coming, so the shipping forecast tells me. A big one, in from the Atlantic.The three-hundred-and-first step is missing. Or anyway, the centre of the board is. Every other step – all three hundred and forty-one of them – are worn and bowed, but completely intact. It was like that when I took this position eleven years agoMother. My mother came to see me. Not really my mother. I’m not a madman.I last saw her in a bombed-out church in France. I was lying next to my old schoolfriend Albert. We’d taken cover i...
Submitted to Contest #244
KarlSo Kay’s ancient parents are there, and Hils and Danny with our baby granddaughter, and Mel, Kay’s friend-from-way-back. Mel only eats white things but she can drink any color and she’s chosen the Olive Garden to go full spectrum.Me, I’m hitting the Pinot.Kay’s saying, “You should have seen the costumes! I was Mary Poppins and Karl was the chimney sweep – like, Dick van Dyke? Karl – you have it on your phone?”I look for the photo. She leans over to see.“It was later. That’ s September. Scroll down.”I scroll down and…“Oh, my God, Karl!” S...
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