Andrew Hedgecock

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“A Modest Prophecy” by Andrew Hedgecock

Submitted to Contest #186

A Modest Prophecy‘We need to circle the wagons,’ said the CEO, clicking to a slide showing month-by-month patronage for the current and previous financial years. There was a pause to allow us to grasp the significance of the image on the Boardroom screen, but the implication of the blue bars towering over their red neighbors was obvious.‘So guys, later this week I’ll be reaching out to each of you, to discuss rightsizing measures for your departments,’ she continued.I looked round the room to see how the rest of the management team were taki...

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Andy Hedgecock is a freelance writer based in rural Nottinghamshire, UK. He regularly walks with Drake (his Staffordshire Bull Terrier) through a landscape featuring an Iron Age earthwork, the remains of a Roman hill fort, a decommissioned coalmine and a disused railway line. It’s a place of scars, erasures and stories.