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Weekly Contest #187
“Bastard cat!” said a man with a wet patch across the groin of his trousers as he burst through the doors of the Hog’s Head. I guessed he was about my age. That is to say, the age where incontinence becomes a very real possibility. His face was ruddy with embarrassment or anger or both as he brushed at the wet patch with his hands as if that would somehow dry them. A mousey lady, his wife I guessed, hurried out after him onto the high street and started doing the same. This just seemed to irritate the man even more, especially when he noti...
Weekly Contest #185
“Mum, please, I’m begging you,” I bawl at the control panel. “If you’re in there, you’ve got to let me out!” My yell reverberates around the kitchen, thin and shrill as it bounces off those expensive cabinets, tiles and stone countertops that Dad’s paying for but will never see, let alone use. The tiny camera lens just stares back, unblinking. Like some kind of one-eyed psychopath. “I’m not sure what you mean, Cindy,” the house’s AI system says in its infuriatingly calm, soothing voice. “If you can be more specific with your query, I’ll...
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