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Submitted to Contest #323
Sergeant Jeffrey Dobbs woke at 7am sharp at the Marriott Hotel just outside of town. It was November 4th which meant he was 14 weeks and 6 days into his divorce. He imagined his wife - no, his ex-wife now - and their 13 year old daughter back at their house in town, still asleep, and he felt an ache in his chest. His wife had begged him not to do it. “We’re the lucky ones,” she told him, that last day before she reluctantly signed the papers. “I’m a doctor - we have the money to rise above it - as long as we go to mass and say the words, we...
Submitted to Contest #321
Yesterday Callie turned 7 and grandpa wasn’t there because he had a golf tournament. But he said on Facetime that next year when Callie turns 8 he’s going to give her $100 to make up for it. $100!“Dad,” Callie’s mother exclaimed when he said it, and her eyebrows made those little triangles they make when she’s… What’s the word? Oh yeah: ex-asper-rated. “What?” Grandpa said, and grinned like a shark. “She’s my only grandchild - I gotta spoil her, it’s my job.” Grandpa said he grinned like a shark because he was always the biggest fish in the ...
Submitted to Contest #319
The year is 1993 and Michio Kaku is sitting in his living room in the dark. CBS is broadcasting the Grammy Awards and Tom Wait’s song “Goin’ Out West” is playing through the speakers, but Michio Kaku is not really paying attention. He is deep in thought about far more important matters. He is thinking about science. He is thinking about physics. He is thinking about the very fabric of space and time itself. And when he thinks about Time with a capital T, he is noticing that it no longer seems to stretch on forever into a future full of possi...
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