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Submitted to Contest #318
The town newspaper ran another front-page feature article about him, the second one in as many years. There was a big photo of him smiling and holding up a golden trophy in the shape of a horse’s head. The headline: “Local boy genius crowned regional chess champion”. And the first sentence: “Waterford’s very own boy genius, Lee Thompson, 16, has won the prestigious tri-state chess…”But when I earned my first professional dan rating just a few days earlier, I had to settle for a ten-word note on the St Acutis school bulletin board — “Lee Hyun...
Submitted to Contest #295
Belgorath of the Orb, Scourge of Humanity, the Contained One, Gatherer of All Things Great and Small, had come to enjoy his life at the bottom of the sea. He found a certain amount of peace gazing out at the fish eating each other, the urchins drifting by on gentle currents, and the sharks lazily circling the sea floor. Once upon a time, an Andalusian Emir had cast the orb into the sea amidst accusations of “ungenielike behavior”. Yet had that man ever met another genie? No. He knew nothing of genielike or ungenielike behavior. It had taken ...
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