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Submitted to Contest #313
Bainbridge Sometimes, driving, I’ll get the smell. A car will stop short, or a big truck. It hits me right in the nose, that burning rubber stench, and then I’m six years old, back on that one-lane country road in the hills of Pennsylvania. It happened years ago, before I started school. I've tried telling people about it over the years, and folks laugh or stare. They look at me, wondering when I will deliver the punch line. There wasn’t anything funny about it. It started one fall day, in September. The air was crisp and clean....
Submitted to Contest #312
The Interview “Good morning, it's nice to meet you. I’ve been trying to interview you for years.” He doesn’t shake hands and says, “Make yourself comfortable. I only have twenty minutes, so let's get on topic.” I say, “Great. Can I call you Mark, or Mister Z? I don’t mean to be disrespectful. We just met.” He answers, “That’s fine, I've read some of your work, I agree with much of it.” “Well, thank you. That’s quite a compliment coming from the world's richest man.”“You move in circles I have never dreamed of. Kings and princes from foreign ...
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