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Everything about Fox’s brand new typewriter was ordinary. It had an ordinary keyboard, an ordinary roller knob, an ordinary paper guide, with an ordinary carriage return. The typewriter was normal. Normal, the word Fox knew best. But, whatever the reason, when Fox typed the words ‘It begins snowing outside’ on his brand new typewriter, his desk lamp flickered a little. Then something outside caught Fox’s glance.
The McDonald's is more or less completely empty, setting aside the sketchy-looking bald guy crammed between the humming soda machine and the smudged glass windows."Heard about that Lord Of The Rings reboot?" Laine says, casually messing with her matted braid."Complete bogus. Can't substitute Ian McKellen. Can't."She strolls in to the checkout, smiling breezily at the deadpan fourteen-year-old behind the counter."Hey," She grins. "I'll have the twelve-piece nuggets and...
It takes about five minutes of crying over Zoom with Hazel before my internet goes haywire and my laptop crashes. Hazel's bony face, covered in a plastery layer of tears, still lights up the screen for something like four seconds before her image disintegrates into a million pixelations and my screen goes black. I desperately smash the keypad, and when that doesn't wake it up, I turn to vigorously shaking it. Fifty-year-old piece of crap. I slap the computer closed and lifelessly toss it to the left of my couch, beyond worrying i...
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