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In The Museum
“It's tough being a museum worker, Ed.”
“Yeah, but somebody has to take care of these letters and manuscripts.”
Mel and Ed were two workers in the Antiquities Section.
“No, I mean the flies. These ancient letters are really worthless at swatting the flies in here.”
The museum had a lot of flies.
“You shouldn't be using ancient letters for killing flies, Ed.”
“No?”
“No way…See that one on the table there.”
The creature had a bulbous head.
“You should drop a heavy manuscript on it…Like this.”
He found the older the manuscript, the more squashed the fly.
From Guest Contributor David Sydney
For the prompts Manuscript and Letters
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