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Vijay LikhiteKatharine Widdows Stories 04-07

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  • THROW OF DICE
  • Dead Cert.
  • What Brings you in Tonight?
  • The Rules
  • THROW OF DICE

    THE THROW OF THE DICESatish shut down the operating system, closed the notebook, and went for lunch. “Why do you take so much time to come when you are called? After the food is arranged on the table, it gets cold by the time you start eating. What is the use of serving hot food?” mother complained. “Aai, I wanted to complete writing one paragraph of my new story. If I break in between, the link is lost. And then it is very difficult to continue with the flow of the story.” “Oh! Great story writer. How many stories you have written so far?  Just writing stories is not enough. It must be meanin...H0Jone door

    Dead Cert.

    Billy Blue Heart can’t lose, not this time, grand old nag. I say nag, he’s a chestnut four year old with clean legs and near perfect thoroughbred conformation. He’s also got the best jockey of the decade on his back and 200 quid of my hard-earned cash in an each-way bet on his 3 o’clock at Kempton.But just to be sure. . .“Alright Charlie, lager top and a packet o’ pork scratchin’s?” I shout over the crowd to the corner table.“You know it.” Charlie winks at me and flashes that gold tooth he knows I’m here for.Big Roy, the landlord, meets my eye as I join the jostling three-deep bar queue. He wa...H0Jone door

    What Brings you in Tonight?

          Not everyone is cut out to work in the medical field. You must have thick skin so when a physician, patient, or family member yells at you, it bounces right off. You also need to have compassion for everybody, from babies to homeless people, a warped sense of humor when patients come in with objects inserted into orifices, and the capacity to clean up bodily fluids without vomiting.“I am going to swab the inside of your nostrils for the Covid, Flu, and RSV test,” Susan told her patient.“I do not believe in Covid,” the patient responded.“Well, it will also detect flu virus and RSV, which ...H0Jone door

    The Rules

    THE RULESNOTE: This story contains content regarding violence, mental health, self-harm, and coarse language that some may find disturbingImagine this. You’re trapped. It’s a room (not a prison, but it may as well be): hardwood floor, plastered ceiling, equally beige walls; you have a door and windows but you’re not allowed to use them. Well you can use them, it’s just against the rules.The rules. They’re the only reason you’re alive. That’s what you’ve www.onedoor.ccconvinced yourself of anyway. At the start, when you were still sane, you wrote them on the whiteboard hanging next to your fridge. Laid them ...H0Jone door

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