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Submitted to Contest #239
.I don’t know how long I sat curled up in the fetal position atop the toilet seat, clutching my cellphone with trembling hands. Lori’s WhatsApp message had dimmed and I clicked it again, as if resurrecting it to life put paid to its blatant lie :Have you heard the news? Colin has died, a heart attack. Apparently.The broken-heart emoji was an empathetic touch but just as hollow as Lori’s tactless message. She knew our history. I had little doubt the entire firm did. My own broken heart lay in shards somewhere on the not-too-pristine cubicle f...
Submitted to Contest #218
It was stifling hot in the car, the scorching sun turning the Cortina into a metal furnace. Ben Vorster held the steering wheel with two fingers; its leather grip blistering his fingers. He groped around for the hand towel he had flung down on the passenger seat earlier that morning, pushing his stack of missing persons posters so that they fluttered into the footwell, and draped the dry cloth over the poker-hot steering column. Better, but not by much.Cranking the rattling fan up to its maximin setting, he relented and rolled down his windo...
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