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Submitted to Contest #37
You receive a call at 4 a.m. on your cell phone. It is a colleague from work. He tells you that you will receive a call from the Police. “Something happened! It’s weird!” He doesn’t add much, and given the hour, you think: he is just wasted or the weeks of confinement got to his head. You work at the Musée Lascaris in the old town (vieille ville) in Nice, which has been closed for weeks now. What could be wrong? It’s 10 minutes after. You get a call from . . . the Police. The officer on the phone introduces himself and you scratch...
Submitted to Contest #36
Lockdown Day 23 11:11 p.m. I make a wish from my bed, already covered and set to sleep. Writing in my diary is the “last” thing I do everyday since the start of this lockdown. I am upset with the book I am reading. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” That Dostoyevsky! He makes me think at night, which is what I am trying not to do. I miss going out for walks more than anything. I went out to buy groceries today and the Police stopped everyone that di...
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