The Transformation of Rupert Sweet_Fable_What Day Is It?_The Paradoxical Effect
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The Transformation of Rupert Sweet
The Transformation of Rupert Sweet a short story by John Simes‘Snow blanketed the landscape, it muffled sound and hid the roads.’ Rupert Sweet stared bleakly at the sentence. Same old crap. Of course, the sodding snow muffled sound and hid the sodding roads. What else would it sodding well do? Always the same. Amanda Tempest (aka Lavinia Stoate) always started her nauseatingly sanctimonious so-called novels with the same kind of opening sentence. If it wasn't snow, it would be a row of benighted willow trees, tossing their branches balefully at the moon, or scudding clouds sliding across the ...
Fable
fable /ˈfeɪb(ə)l/ n. 1、 A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. The fable of the sick lion and the wary fox V. Archaic. 2、 Tell fictitious tales. “I do not dream nor fable”Oxford Languages DictionaryEdmund was surprised himself sometimes how much value he projected onto people when they could do something for him. In any other situation this person was someone he would regard with minimal interest. ‘Is there anything you would like to know about the position?’ asked Mr Kahnweiler, the Manager of the Forest Mound Bank. Mr Kahnweiler wore, despite the humble subu...
What Day Is It?
“What day is it?” said Jim.“Why it’s Tuesday of course!” said Dee, busying herself in the kitchen.“Is it? I’ve lost all track of time being stuck here. Every day seems the same.”Jim stooped and picked up the daily newspaper that had just landed on the doormat. He held out the front page.“Today is Wednesday.”“Can’t be. Yesterday was Monday, wasn’t it?”“It says the day right here on the paper, Wednesday 5thMay.”He struck the red top tabloid with the back of his hand as though to drive home the point.“Well what happened to Tuesday?”“It’s gone. Don’t worry they’ll be another one next week.”He tigh...
The Paradoxical Effect
George flipped on the television. The cathode ray tube set hummed and the picture came into focus. “The coronavirus has spread to every major city in the United States. Governor Huard issued a state of emergency. Lockdowns go into effect at midnight tonight. If you need to go to a store you must wear a mask—“ George stared at the screen in a mixture of www.onedoor.cchorror and disbelief. His cheek twitched as he watched; a tic he acquired a decade earlier. His doctor said it was from nerves. That was a ridiculous diagnosis. George didn't struggle with nerves.He turned the volume down and walked into the kit...