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Submitted to Contest #99
I was in the middle of my driver’s test last week when out of the blue the examiner asked me about hazard perception. I must have seemed confused, which is not a good look when you’re trying to pass a test. Name the potential hazards, he said, getting a little impatient. What are some of the things that can go wrong? I’d just turned into an empty residential street neatly lined with colourful, pretty houses that all looked different but somehow still looked the same. I couldn’t imagine anything ever going wrong on a street like that, so...
Submitted to Contest #97
It’s nearly midnight, and he’s still there, the old man with the ugly pit bull. I noticed he’d set up camp under the awning by the corner store a few weeks ago, pushing a rickety Costco trolley filled to the brim with plastic bags and a flat, yellow-stained mattress. The dog was leashed to the handlebar. He’s lucky, I thought. That’s a good spot, normally occupied by the large woman who was always slumped over like a pile of dirty laundry. Once, I offered her my green juice from the organic food store across the street. She said she didn’t l...
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