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Submitted to Contest #75
My father’s funeral was better attended than I anticipated, given the man made a career from diagnosing and describing the end of so many lives. Sitting up the front of the local church, I had felt the press of people at my back but didn’t want to turn around and look at their faces. When it was my turn to eulogise him, I waited until the last moment to raise my eyes and look out over the collection of people, many of them physically uncomfortable in church, but on the whole looking back at me with serene half-smiles. It’s in the quiet time ...
Submitted to Contest #42
‘Good evening passengers, and welcome to Sydney airport,’ announced the avatar on the seatback screen.Jerry stood in the aisle, stretched and lifted his bag down from the overhead compartment. Just one bag, its contents deliberately minimal: three crew-neck t-shirts, one shirt and one sweater (both blue), two pairs of shorts, socks and underwear, essential toiletries, a small towel, a phone charger, flip flops. Everything else he carried in his pockets or the pouch tucked into his jeans. He flicked the hair tie off his wrist and pulled a han...
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