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Venus Buried
The girl in the graveyard is your best friend, so you take her home. The night is a bruise between you, a blotch of rogue in the passenger window; the colour of fruit left out to fester. The body pries at her seatbelt, a finger, then two. The radio echoes static, the body shuffles in her seat. You study the face; the similar slice of jaw, the nose humped from where a baseball had hit her at twelve, just slightly off centre. The skin like a rain-licked plastic bag. The stink of musk and sulphur. You want to look away but you can't. She's so beautiful, even like this. Your headlights rake warbled slits through the dirt road, a yellow like jaundice. Your hands are numb from the cold, your lips chapped. The girl beside you is dead, and you're bringing her home.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Sweetbread: An Epilogue
My sister had always a soft heart. Soft as sweetbread. She wept, afterward, over the old woman, notwithstanding. Perhaps because of everything. I remember holding her while she wept; both of us covered in soot, her fingers scalded from holding shut the oven door.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Just Another Dead Girl Underwater
By the time the fisherman finds me, I'll have been dead for thirty-three hours, six minutes, and twenty-nine seconds. Eighteen hours since the police declared me missing. Fifteen hours since Zoe told my biology teacher that my tent was empty, that I hadn't returned from the party we'd snuck out to the night before. Careful, quiet, every twig a possible snitch. It was invigorating—our hearts hammering, the smell of pine and seaweed thick in the air, the moon a perfectly curved sickle.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
The Empty Laboratory
Seventeen blinks. The yellow warning light on his air gauge always blinked seventeen times before turning red. Dr. Chen counted them like heartbeats as he swapped out his oxygen tank, each one ticking another three hours of borrowed time. Through the reinforced windows of his BSL-4 lab, the setting sun painted the research facility the same amber shade as the viral suspension he'd been perfecting when the sprinklers activated.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
45 Seconds
Hey, Tanner. It’s me again. Just checking in; I’ll try to keep it short. Was really missing you at our last game. Tony can't catch for shit. Coach even asked him if he needed glasses, was genuinely worried about his depth perception being off or something. He's a helluva runner, it's why we wanted him, but man does he fumble hard. Got so frustrated watching him I almost slipped up and said that word again. You know, the one you always told me not to call people.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
The Counter and the Coal
Not even magical flying reindeer are immortal, and Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen were tales of Christmases mornings that had long since come to pass. Rudolph himself lived seventeen years: a respectable life span for the average captive reindeer. By no means a miracle. Unless such a reindeer was among the lucky few to be housed in the stalls of a certain, southern toy shop. These reindeer tended to be shorter-lived than most. You see, every Christmas, a few of Santa's reindeer would fall short of the requirements needed to fly around the globe.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Why Aircraft Couldn’t Fly Without Ground Support Equipment
When we board a plane for our holidays or have to fly for a business trip, we tend to take a lot for granted about the aircraft that we fly on and we don't really think about the fact that such aircraft actually take a lot of looking after. Just to get them ready to take to the skies and keeping them well maintained requires an awful lot of work by many people and the ground crews who perform this vital role have to depend upon certain specialist ground support equipment, without which the aircraft would not be able to fly.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
3 Reasons We Can’t Live Without Plastic
There's been some serious pushback against plastic for many years, and for good reason—it's bad for the environment. There is simply no denying that since plastic was invented and the world adopted a single-use, throwaway mentality, the earth has suffered greatly. Today, there are an estimated 75 to 199 million tons of plastic waste in the world's oceans, with 33 million pounds added every year.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know About It
Have you ever wished for a conversation companion that could write compelling stories, solve your most difficult problems, and even create stunning images—all in a manner of milliseconds? Say hello to ChatGPT, the revolutionary AI tool by OpenAI that is making a sea change in the game of digital interactions.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
How Inflation Affects Small Business Loan Approval
Inflation has turned the economy on its head for the last couple of years. It is nearly a race among advancing and succeeding entrepreneurs to score small business loans only to find stiff competition. The interest charges have also risen in tandem with inflation. To solve these issues, the lenders have raised their standards for granting loans.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
Best Property Management Company in Coquitlam, BC
Coquitlam is a vibrant city in British Columbia that is known for its natural beauty, thriving communities, and endless recreational activities. Coquitlam property management will give peace of mind and ease to property owners. Activities of property managers may include screening potential tenants, collecting rent, maintenance, and dealing with emergencies. They will make sure that your house is well-maintained and that any problems are seen to as soon as possible. With a property manager handling the day-to-day operations, homeowners can rest assured while focusing on other aspects of their lives and knowing that their property is in good hands. That is an important service, one that makes property ownership far easier and more convenient for Coquitlam residents.
By Global Updateabout a year ago in Education
