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Critical

(8 stories)

Prognosis

Built-up dye
Silver roots
Porous shanks
A strange kink

I'm sorry
But your hair
Is now in
Critical
Condition
#130story

"I'm not critical, I'm pedantic" she said as she stormed out. #130story

You need marbles to play my favourite game. They were all missing. Does it matter? said Mum. Mum, I said, they're hippo critical. #130story

It was a near hit
(A miss)
Almost critical
It was a near miss
(A hit)
The impact was physical
It was out of the blue
Unpredictable
#130story

The trader waited. Jay's description of her father was critical. She had no idea how he knew her father but she needed his help. #130story

I've often found that when I am at my most critical I am also at my least useful, and that the opposite applies; equally so #130story

Machines now battled each other, but emotional AI was a step too far.
"Yer mam was a vending machine!"
It was a critical hit.
#130story

The candid and critical friend tried to keep him on the straight-and-narrow but in the end a curvy broad proved to hold the power. #130story