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Submitted to Contest #285
December, 1999 - John & Joana Dunkin were losin’ their gosh-darned marbles over the news reports on the TVs claimin’ the world was gonna end the night of the ball drop. Neither one of ‘em had the intellect to understand what sorta “bug” was gonna ruin everything - nor the foresight to comprehend that perhaps, all would be swell and everything would be fine. John had lost his job down at the travel agency, and Joana had been outta work since before the previous New Year - back when the scares of the “Why-Two something’ Bug” had all been a...
Submitted to Contest #215
RIOT By Nuri Wennekers Television had turned me into a social shut-in. At Least, that’s what the doctor told me. He said I spent too much of my free time watching mindless television. Too many sleepless nights watching cop dramas, reality shows, or the nightly news. Every single night, I’d watch actors have fake sex, or shoot fake guns at one another. In the daytime, I’d work at the mall’s electronics shop, selling TVs to families and students. I got the job while I was a high school student. A decade later, I...
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