Very Short Mondays: Scar Tissue

Clarice stood up with some difficulty.  The operation had been a success, she'd been told.  So why did it still hurt?

Synapse memory, Dr Entwistle had said.  It will be gone in a month or two.

She could still feel it inside her.  She touched the crease of her skin with her fingertips.  She touched the place where they had stapled and sewn her back together.  The scar tissue felt hard and uneven, as it always did.

She looked at her niece, Sarah, watching the television, the adoring smile fixed on her face.  On the screen, Dr Entwistle was being sworn into office.  He looked much the same as Clarice remembered him.  Fifteen years' worth of extra grey hair, but otherwise unchanged.


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Link of the Day: Ocean of Fire

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Very Short Mondays: Blue Strip

Harley Tonstol docked himself at the charge point.  The blue strip in the pavement underneath remained static.  There was no pulse in the light like there used to be.  No artificial representation of the process that was taking place within.  Not since the Act of Parliament.

To the untrained eye he was just one of the many people arriving at, departing from, or convening outside Waterloo Station.  But there were very few untrained eyes any more.  Everyone knew how careful the Organics were to avoid stepping on the blue strips.  None of them were foolish enough to bring their status into question so cheaply.

The discrimination, which the Act had been designed to eliminate, continued unabated.


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Link of the Day: Honk

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Sketchbook 5: Sporting Chance

Link of the Day: 8 New Punctuation Marks

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7 Word Story: Slice

Swing...

Swing...

SWING!  FORE!

Watch...

Watch...

Walk...

Watch...

Walk...

Bunker.

Breathe.

Walk.  Walk.  Bunker.

Breathe...

Swing...

Swing...

SWING!

Slice.  Bunker.

Swing!

Slice.

Swing!

Slice.

Breathe.  Breathe.

Swing...

Swing...

Swing!  Fore...

Watch...

Watch...

Watch?

Slice.

Bunker.

Breathe.  Breathe.

Swing!Swing!Swing!

Slice!Slice!Slice! Swing?

Slice.

Walk.


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Link of the Day: Sketchbook Dump

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Sketchbook 5: No-tices

Link of the Day: Macro photos of snowflakes in the moments before they disappear

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