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The Johnsons had parked their car in his parking spot again. They knew he hated this.
The war between the two neighbours had been raging for three years now. Lately he'd trained his cat, to relieve itself in their garden when he let it out at night, but they'd put an automatic water sprinkler there.
Tonight the war would reach a new level, around the side of the window he peeped at their front door as the first appointment of the evening he'd booked arrived.
He could just hear the double glazing salesmen start his spiel as their door opened.

Date: 2002-04-11 05:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vyvyan.livejournal.com
I do like these 100-word shorts. Have you read Geoff Ryman's novel 253? (Online at http://www.ryman-novel.com/ ) Every section of that novel contains exactly 253 words. There's a sequel he's compiling, composed of readers' submissions (which should all be exactly 300 words this time!).

Date: 2002-04-11 06:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com
A strange novel indeed; I like why it's 253 words, very interesting stuff!

Date: 2002-04-11 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sesquipedality.livejournal.com
I have a copy if you would prefer dead tree version.

Date: 2002-04-11 06:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com
Cheers, that'd be appreciated but I have a backlog of 6 books at the moment and Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson) is proving a real epic to get through, although it is a fine read

Date: 2002-04-11 07:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sesquipedality.livejournal.com
Finished that last week. Fun, but NS really has no clue about endings. Many fine authors suffer a great deal because of this. Oh well.

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