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Submitted to Contest #321
George had never been a ‘handkerchief in the top pocket’ kind of guy. He didn’t possess many clean white handkerchiefs that could fulfil the purpose, and there never seemed to be an occasion special enough to warrant buying one. And yet today he pressed a crisp, ivory, Egyptian cotton handkerchief into the top pocket of his blazer and examined himself in the mirror. “You will more than do, sir.” He said it as if offering an objective fact to a stranger. Unusually, he also placed a hat on his neatly combed hair—again, he made a specia...
Submitted to Contest #295
So, Uncle Bill died. "He's not really your uncle," they would say. I'm not sure what that meant. He used to take me fishing and tell me stories that, even at a young age, I didn't believe. If that constitutes what an uncle is, then I guess he was if it’s the old ‘brother of one of your parents’ thing, probably not."There are worlds far beyond what you can see," he once said as he pierced a maggot with a fishing hook and waved it under my nose. I was playing my GameBoy and didn't appreciate this thing wriggling under my nostrils. Just throw t...
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