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Submitted to Contest #275
The cooing outside her window woke Eleanor at seven in the morning. She was having a well-deserved lie-in after scrubbing the bathroom tiles with a toothbrush until 1 AM. Her sister, Clarissa, was visiting in a few hours, and she wanted everything spotless. She would never hear the end of it if Clarissa spotted even a crumb on the floor. The pigeons were having a chat about whatever pigeons chat about. Eleanor stormed out of bed and made her way to the living room, throwing open the curtains. “Bugger off, you dirty feathered rats!” ...
Submitted to Contest #269
“We interrupt this program to bring you this important update,” said the voiceover as a loud alert sounded, which woke Walter up. He had fallen asleep watching a late-afternoon rerun of his favourite police drama. “Geez, what the hell’s going on?” he said as he sat up, looking for his glasses. “Where did I put the damn things?” he said as he finally found them on top of his head. A live radar map of southern Florida showed a giant hurricane was about to make landfall. “That wasn’t supposed to hit us. What the hell happened?” The weather team...
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