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Submitted to Contest #76
“I said I would like two tickets please.” “Two pickets sir? I don’t understand.” If I sounded exasperated, it’s because I was. Me, a young man in the prime of his health, well-to-do, accomplished, and relatively well known, exasperated. They always promise that a new decade will bring about new accomplishments, new achievements, a better life. So far, however, I’m not convinced. The 30s seem very much like the 20s. “Yes” I replied “I mean no, not pickets, tickets man, tickets.” “I do apologize sir, but I am in a bit of a misunderstanding...
Submitted to Contest #75
I looked at the cast iron frying pan. It seemed heavy enough for the job. It wouldn’t dent either which meant I could still use it to cook breakfast after. That is, if I remembered how to cook breakfast. Which I would, wouldn’t I? ************ “Sir, sir. Can you hear me?” A combination of flashing lights and people moving about the room met my unsteady gaze. Was that smoke I smelled? “I…I think so…” “He’s conscious” a voice replied “Sir, we’re going to move you onto a stretcher and take you to the hospital. Everything is going to be okay...
Submitted to Contest #74
All I heard was a steady beeping. The steady beeping of what though? I wondered. It wasn’t a bird, that was for certain, though if it were it would likely be a new species. It wasn’t a person either as far as I could tell, it was too rhythmic, too.. machine-like. Machine. Machine. It was the beeping of a machine. But what machine? One second has passed. Nine seconds remaining. One second has passed? Surely that was longer than a second. Surely. “Umm… I think there’s been a mistake. That was much longer than a second. Oh, and where am...
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