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Fiction
Who’s Watching Who?
Grant Bartley tells a terrifying tale of privacy, paranoia and popular culture.
Phil and Sarah are in their small living room, slumped on their once-cream beige sofa, watching rolling news clips. Sarah glances around and thinks, ‘How can I feel so bored and let-down already? Talk about being ground down by disappointment through failed expectations. Except we don’t talk about it.’ She says, “So how can we remake our lives, Phil?”
“I dunno. To start, maybe think up something nice to do.
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