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Weekly Contest #347
The operating mask obscured his face as he leaned over the body of the man lying on the surgery table.‘There’s the culprit,’ he said, and moved his head to focus the torch onto the right spot. ‘Looks inflamed, but no sign of permanent damage.’His words bounced around the empty operating theatre and returned back to him undelivered.‘Swab count at five. Clamp.’ He continued to narrate the proceedings to himself. ‘Snip just above the clamp.’The arms of his autonomous surgical system predictively responded before the words left his lips.‘Irrigat...
Weekly Contest #296
The hurtful innocence of turning 16,and realising for the first time, that me and authority would never get along. 16, and caring about nothing else than the approving grunts of my peers as I arrived back at our table with four containers of synthetic liquid, accidentally spilling some of it on the stained archaic wooden surface, which made us all laugh a laugh that you can only do when you’re 16 and want to impress your mates that you’re hard and fearless, but secretly insecure and scared, and I grew organic bars to block anyone from coming...
Weekly Contest #291
It was 3:00am. The diffuse luminosity of a large liquid-crystal display raucously harbingered the entrance to the bar below. The sign spelled NaN, the name of the only franchise with 24/7 license. Inside, the lights were set to a warm amethyst glow, which was gently absorbed by the standard franchise chrome and silk décor. The only customers were a sleepy couple, fighting their tiredness across the touchscreen table in the corner, and him, sitting on one of the stools, close to the self-service units. He could see himself in the mirror behin...
Weekly Contest #279
The commute home is the worst part of my existence. The residue of the time I thought I remembered from when I was a kid, or maybe when I was some other kid travelling with his parents, mum and dad always used to talk to strangers on the train as if they’d been old friends. The residue, which stirs a horrible soup of cognitive dissonance and shame. Nobody talks like old friends anymore and nobody cares that I’m left with this indescribably shaped hole, and the emptiness that blackens my mind and ruins everything, and makes it really hard to ...
Weekly Contest #278
‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned…’ The confessional chair broke painfully into his bony knees. He slowly fidgeted to make himself more comfortable but the only thing he achieved was the loud creaking of the old wooden structure, which muted what he was going to say.‘I’m sorry, son, I can’t hear you,’ someone said from the other side of the latticed opening.He stopped wriggling, and the wooden prie dieu hastily reminded him why he wanted to move in the first place. His mind fired a blank. All the things he memorised in preparation have be...
Weekly Contest #273
Nothing was what it seemed that night. Fake snowflakes twinkled in the light of the irregularly shaped building like a glam canvas of glitter against a black background. Inside the building, the windows were slowly steaming up from the make-belief exultation of the crowded floor.‘5 - 4 - 3 - 2 – 1 - Happy new year!’Mr Harbinger watched the celebration from his office window above the expansive foyer. His shrewd eyes measured every detail and pierced through the phoney façade of merriment downstairs, and saw deep into the bones of materiality...
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