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Submitted to Contest #309
The morning light filtering through my bedroom window is the same indifferent shade of grey as it has been on every Tuesday for the past three months. I haven’t taken a landscape photograph since Margaret died, and I see only one shade, though I know there are dozens if not hundreds more, especially in the minutes before sunrise. I count the Tuesdays, marking time like a prisoner marks off each day of his sentence on the wall of his cell. Seventy-three days of waking up each morning in an empty house, seventy-three days of brewing coffee for...
Submitted to Contest #281
The idea of becoming a butler had appealed to me for some time. After all, I had the name for it—Jeeves—a fine and respectable moniker, even if I say so myself. My natural attire was perfectly suited to the role: a sleek black all-in-one suit complete with a white bib in the front. I practically looked the part already. Add to that the fact that I lived in a sprawling, posh English castle—and well, you could say I was born for the job. More than anything else, though, it was the allure of carrying a polished walking cane and wearing a smart ...
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