Rewired

Drip, drip, drip. Her eyes stuck to the laptop screen, flicking through the thirty browser tabs, trying to find the one with the good quote that was halfway down a page somewhere next to the weird graph . . . drip, drip, drip. How strange to hear a dripping sound inside? Oh, how she hated dripping sounds, and where the hell was the quote? And why did everything always. Have. To. Sound. So. Annoying? 

Oh shit.

Maggie slammed her laptop shut and stood up. The drips grew louder and faster behind her, morphing into a trickle as she turned around to face the kitchen.

One Week

This story is by Alice Neilson and was part of our 2017 Winter Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. She had taken no notice of him at first, bustling past him huddled under her jacket from the rain. But once she was a few metres ahead of him her feet…

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One Week

This story is by Alice Neilson and was part of our 2017 Winter Writing Contest. You can find all the writing contest stories here. She had taken no notice of him at first, bustling past him huddled under her jacket from the rain. But once she was a few metres ahead of him her feet…

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