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Submitted to Contest #298
I pick up the entry form from the pile on the table and start to write: Name: Wesley Hammond Race: 400 metres (under 19s)Hospital: Loxley CentralDepartment: Administration The form takes all of eighteen-point-four seconds to fill in. I know because I time it. But already, I’m crumpling it in my hand and doing a rewrite, aiming to shave off a couple of seconds. I don’t succeed, merely whittle point-seven seconds from the original. I leave it at that. The race organiser, a middle-aged woman, smiles brightly. ‘Good luck,’ she says. I give what...
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