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MATTHEW GREGORY: Academic Pest Control

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“Rats roam the library at night,” I told the Dean. “Students bring in food, don’t clean up after themselves. There’s roaches, too.”

She asked for a solution.

“Get rid of them,” I responded.

“Obviously,” she said, then asked, “Rodents or students?”

“Both.”

“They’d still find a way into the building.”

Matthew Gregory is a writer and filmmaker whose short films “Alamogordo, NM,” “guarda innanzi che tu salti,” and “Joseph Jefferson Solves the Hunger Problem” have been featured in the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée. He has also worked as a writer and camera operator for the forthcoming film Papa. He lives in South Florida.

PRISCILLA O’CONNOR: Keys

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Two dozen keys on a ring. Twenty four times he’s a trusted man.

“Dad, why do you have so many keys?” his young daughter asks.

“Because I am an important person,” he says with a smile and a chuckle.

The child imagines the abundant ring of keys in her future.

Priscilla is a retail manager by day and an artist by night. She just recently stumbled upon this writing technique, fell in love, and decided to try it for the first time.

ALEX STEACY: Malfunction

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Kieth leaned wearily on his mop. He looked up at the ugly contraption the whitecoats had so proudly built and intended to fire tomorrow. Kieth thought of the misery and death it would bring. Quietly, carefully, he removed a metal panel, tugged free some wires and snuck away a hero.

Alex Steacy is a member of Loading Ready Run and recently released a collaborative graphic novel called Shards.