Stories tagged “newspaper”
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All The News That's Fit
The newsroom was only partially lit. It was pretty late even for this place. Jim wondered if anyone besides the overworked maintenance staff was still around. Looking across the room he saw that one light was still on. It was the so-called “Entertain...
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Fantasyland XXII
When Dodgy Ron finished tunnelling Ralph’s laboratory and charging him according to the Tunneler’s Payment Scale before adding the mandatory exponential factor of two, the serious work began. Ralph moved his tabletop experiment subterranean and tha...
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Protein Drink
Sam nibbled coffee as he scanned the morning paper, savoring the pulpy feel of newsprint between his fingers. The technocrats kept insisting that newspapers were out-fashioned and wasteful, but Jason preferred to stay off-line for breakfast, putting of...
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The Wanderer Follows...
They didn’t know what woke him up. Whatever it had been, must have been powerful. It all felt so unreal, yet the time, his appearance, it was all true. He had been in a coma for 3 months. He made it through his physical without a hitch. No linger...
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Greasy Fingerprints
Franny hovered over her antique Griswold #8 Cast Iron Deep Chicken Fryer, poking at the golden crisping thighs. Franny was looking forward to this years Bone Gap community picnic cooking contest. The theme was Fast Food. She was entering her version of...