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Submitted to Contest #84
‘It’s nothing’ Dr Lachlan declared, after examining me. ‘Just a cold. One of the staff must have brought the germs in.’ Her nose crinkled. She looked around the sanitary, white interior of my bunker, evidently irritated that the outside world had managed to penetrate the place. ‘You’re getting fat, though. Ted’s been giving you sweets again, hasn’t he?’ I said nothing, and avoided her gaze. She sniffed and looked around the room. There wasn’t much to see: a desk with a couple of exercise books and pens, a neatly ordered bookshelf, an armc...
Submitted to Contest #82
It was ten o’clock, and the morning mists were reluctant to release their hold on the Scottish borders. Gradually, the breeze was revealing a landscape of conifers, some bare, some clinging to their green needles. A road cut through the dense plantation, linking a small, sleepy village to the solid, square outline of a castle. The building’s element-battered exterior revealed that it had been rebuilt and remodelled countless times, its façade subject to both the necessities of war and the fickleness of fashion. In the gloom, one sign of occu...
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