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Submitted to Contest #146
Breathe. Concentrate. Inhale. Air enters the nostrils. The chest expands. Exhale. Air escapes. To the very end. All the way, to empty. Repeat the cycle. Living now. In and out. In and.... An itch. Between my right temple and eye. A curiosity to be examined. Moment to moment, it crests. Disappears. Such things always go away. Saliva below my tongue, between lip and gum. I swallow, and reset my rhythm. In, and the chest expands. Out, and I deflate. In... "Motherfucker!" Who said that? "Uhhhh." Involuntary utterance — refle...
Algore by Evan Kaiser Algore 42996 smelled the smoke way before Superintendant Calculator B78 did. Al was a farmer. He nursed ostrich-fern fiddleheads, a critical nutrient in the Habitat, and his superior facility with the baby ferns earned him elite status. As a result, he guessed the machines would keep him around the standard five extra years. Not that longevity as such meant anything to him. Or so he told ...
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