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Submitted to Contest #208
It was a Saturday, and a few weeks before his 40th birthday that Laurent Wilson stared out of the dirty window that overlooked his back garden. The weeds were overgrown, to the point that it was impossible to see the grass beneath. Dark grey clouds threatened to burst. He hadn’t been out in the garden in quite some time – always excusing himself from fixing the abomination which it had become by complaining about it being either too hot or too cold. When Laurent and his wife Elizabeth had moved into the house on Partick Crescent the garden h...
Submitted to Contest #207
I’ve worked in a lot of different kitchens in a lot of different restaurants, and I can tell you that they are all the same. They tell you all the rules that they’re legally obligated to and expect you to forget all of them by the time their little show is done. So many rules and there’s only one thing that I know is true in the kitchen: You either listen to the fat man eating or the fat man telling you what to cook. Both know how to complain, and both know how to end your career if you aren’t careful. I’m listening to the latter as we get o...
Submitted to Contest #206
The sky was filled with grey clouds when Nate Loren, his wife Misty and their son Enzo pulled up to the rusty iron gates. There was no security booth, or any buzzer in sight. Nate had unfastened his seatbelt and was about to get out of their bright yellow Volkswagen when the gates creaked open. He drove slowly through the gates, there was nobody in sight as they drove toward the front door of the ‘Hospital for the Psychologically Challenged’ building. A man with dark black hair smiled at them as they neared the entrance. He wore a white co...
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