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Submitted to Contest #303
I lay in Rose Petal’s lap, her hands lightly brushing the fur on my back, stroking from my neck to the stump where my tail had once begun. She was making a noise – not her usual chatter, but an arhythmic moaning accompanied by spasmodic tremors that jounced me repeatedly. I called her Rose Petal because that’s what she smelled like the day she found me. The feral cat that had attacked me raised its head, looked at her and hissed. Rose Petal chattered angrily, and the cat trotted away through the gap in the hedge. When Rose Petal ran away, I ...
Submitted to Contest #301
Thursday, August 9, 1984I made an honest mistake. I was going to Boston for a deposition of a key witness in an upcoming trial. After forgetting to wind my fickle alarm clock, waiting for traffic and a long search for parking, I was late, running through the terminal with a briefcase in one hand and a gym bag stuffed with a change of clothes in the other. The doors to gates E and F were a few feet apart, and I saw the last of a line of people going into the door on the right. I joined the line. If I tried this today, a hundred safeguards wou...
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