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Submitted to Contest #267
WHISTLEBLOWER “Thank God,” I think as I glance at my watch. Seventy-eight minutes gone and twelve to go. Well, maybe fourteen with a bit of extra time thrown in. “Come on, Dave, you can do this.”The late summer sun blasted down over the Process Academic Stadium, its rays unwantedly smothering his bald head. It had been a long one, all right. It had dragged far more than any other game of the season, that was for sure. It certainly didn’t help that there was nothing to play for. Cobridge Academia and Manor Heights Rovers were both sitting co...
Submitted to Contest #266
AND I FEEL FINE Zac Rhoades could see the future. This was not pie in the sky. This was not a silly hunch. This was not some intelligent guesswork.This was not cryptic messages in the form of tea leaves and hidden symbols.Zac Rhoades could see into the future.As a teen, perhaps seventeen or eighteen (he couldn’t quite recall), sitting on his toilet seat he visualized he would witness an accident. A cyclist would hit a car, roll over the bonnet, get back on his feet and shout at the driver. He visualized the cyclist in every detail from...
Submitted to Contest #222
ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE Remember to Apply the Attitude of Gratitude and Life will soon go your way. And send. Richard Salsa smiled as he looked at his daily twitter post, ensured it was shared to all his followers, -always hoping for a few new ones, and logged off his laptop before the likes and comments began to flood in and distract him. Extending his smile , the laptop lid closed as he stood up from behind his desk, stretched and looked out of the large east-facing window. Posting on social media and not feel...
Submitted to Contest #179
Trevor shuffled his feet again, trying and failing not to focus on that feeling of his bladder expanding. God, he needed to relieve himself but surely bladder must be empty by now. Three times in the last fifteen minutes the toilet had been visited and at least six times since his arrival here , and every single time no more than a dribble escaped. Inhaling a deep breath and trying Trevor attempted the technique that one of these self-development books had explained. The book had been purchased three or four years ago to make You...
Submitted to Contest #160
The kettle whistles at the same time he discovers he has finished the last of the milk this morning. Sighing, he places on his jacket, his cap and steps off his moored canal boat to land. Eric Cope takes the last two stone steps up from the canal and past the Canal Tavern. As per usual heglances through the pub’s window and sees him sitting at the bar drinking his Guinness. And onceagain, he quickly looks down at his scuffed boots, then up at the clouds blanketing the sky above -continuing his short daily journey to pick up a pint of milk an...
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