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Submitted to Contest #225
I used to smile at myself in mirrors. I heard as a kid that the simple act of smiling releases the happy chemicals in your brain, and I figured the result would be twofold if I saw myself doing it. Kind of like proving to myself that I could still smile at myself even if things weren’t going well. That I could make myself feel better in some small, simple way. It became a habit, something I’d do without thinking while I washed my hands—a bit odd in public restrooms, but it was easy to pretend I was checking my teeth for stuck bits of food. ...
Submitted to Contest #224
Aro shared his office with someone he’d never met. In the ever-churning, ever-changing labyrinth of the Caretaker Bureau, he walked in a door that led into the office at dawn, and the same door at dusk, but this time it let out into the cloister. Between those times, he sat in the office with its two three plaster walls and one brick wall and saw nobody. His work came to him through pneumatic tubes that extended into the ceiling and disappeared, on their way to some unknown terminus. He removed the scrolls from their little capsules and sen...
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