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Submitted to Contest #251
When Alfred Lang died two years ago, obituaries mostly covered his stock market achievements. For in a lifetime Lang had made over $120 billion in profits starting in late '90s and through the Dotcom bust of '00s and the recession of '08. This success got covered in books, magazine articles (many in this publication) and two successful films. And then as if to balance it out, the obituaries allotted a requisite amount of print space to Lang’s 'minor' eccentricities (by billionaire standards): owning a 150 foot yacht and making angel investme...
Submitted to Contest #81
Fazil Ali didn't realise it but he was walking faster now. It was a short five minute walk from the metro station. He was at the end of an hour and half long journey and now the bottom dropped out of his patience. He cursed the scores lining up on the escalator and took the stairs instead. “Why do they allow the young people on them?” He said out loud to no one in particular. “Fat youngsters who cannot be bothered to move for the elderly.” Now he was weaving his way through the crowds coming into the metro station. There had been s...
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