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Weekly Contest #355
The dead man’s chair remained at the head of the table, although everyone knew he had never allowed anyone to sit comfortably while he was alive.It was a heavy teak chair with carved arms, too large for the narrow dining room. Haji Rahim had bought it from Makkah in 1998 and shipped it home in a crate that sat in the storeroom for several months, square and sullen among sacks of rice and broken fans. Once it took its place at the table, the chair gathered a dignity greater than most people in the house. Its arms were cut with tight geometric...
Weekly Contest #354
You sit on the toilet for what should have been three minutes of silence.Your spouse is downstairs speaking on the phone in the careful voice used for bills, school matters, and relatives who ask for favours while avoiding the word favour.The bathroom is narrow: damp towel, plastic dinosaur near the bath mat, toothpaste stars on the mirror. You lock the door and lower your head.Privacy in this house has become a unit of measurement. Three minutes. Five, if nobody knocks. Ten, if the children are distracted and your spouse has missed the unpa...
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