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Submitted to Contest #58
"Mr.Brad will you get up from your lazy butt and switch this thing on", my boss said, when he was only a meter away from it. "But sir you are very close", I said irritation rising in my voice. "Looks like someone wants to lose his job, and work as a waiter in a restaurant", my boss replied angrily. "Am I not talking to you? will you get up from there?", he said as I hesitated. This is what I had been going through ever since Mr.Robins became my boss. Working at the power holding company as an electric engineer had been my dream job from ch...
Submitted to Contest #57
"Look at her, she's as courageous as big uncle Simon", my mom happily said to my dad as they both watched me take the injection on my arm without flinching. As we walked home that day, I kept wondering how dumb my family is, that they almost worship the pictures of my long dead big uncle Simon, even to the point of creating a hall of fame at our large family house and naming it after him. It is called "The Simon Carter Family Hall Of Fame". At home that night there was a storm. And as usual in every home of our large family members, anyt...
Submitted to Contest #55
With sleepy eyes, she turned on her room light. "Oh no!, no, no, not again, this is definitely a curse", she said while staring at the circle patch made on her bed with urine. She just bedwetted. She quickly changed her night dress and bed sheets, before anybody would come to look for her. This has been the normal routine for almost three months now. She didn't really know what the problem was, but she knew it wasn't normal for a girl of 27 to be bedwetting. She stopped bedwetting at the age of three, only for it to begin three months ag...
Submitted to Contest #54
She smiled and closed her eyes, trying to remember how this sweet day began. She woke up that morning in her two bedroom apartment with a rush of excitement. She didn't know why she was excited, but waved it aside as one of those days when she dreamt of Jason, her long lost high school sweetheart, whom she had not seen for twelve good years. Anytime she had those type of dreams, she would go about her normal day's activities with anticipation and expectation, sometimes even to the point of hallucination. This affected her so much that she ...
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