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Weekly Contest #33
Tick-1-2-3-Tock. Tick-1-2-3-Tock. Tick-1-2-3-Tock. I can hear it, so I know he can definitely hear it. The clock was the Mentos, and there he was a Coke bottle just bubbling up, squirming in his seat ready to explode. My face tenses up as the strength of the Pantheon holds my smile back. I love it. Thirty minutes before the meeting, I rigged the clock to time each second a beat off. Which is off enough to be inconspicuous, unless you’re obsessed with time like the Clock King. Every wrinkle on his grimace when he hears the “tock” is ironic...
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