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HAZY FIGMENTS


Amusing Musings:
Micro Tale #529: VVSS100 -- VERY VERY SHORT STORY" by Leon Enriquez
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Here's a short take of exactly 100 words, also known as a Drabble. This is an exercise in brevity for a very very short story fragment. Notice the intensity of the argument. Watch how the visual picture evolves as brief word-strings commiserate.
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Story #1: HAZY FIGMENTS
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The haze is back. Yes, an ever-recurring yearly affair with air pollution and smog!
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Originating far away yet abrasive wind-blown particulates spreading respiratory unease here and there, in Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere.
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Wild rampage of plantation fires and burning peat courtesy of... Unsurprisingly, the authorities are helpless about what to do, and how to punish the avaricious offenders.
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News flash convey another insipid repeat broadcast. To clamp down on recalcitrant culprits -- big conglomerates running the hazy business there!
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Obviously, everyone in South-East Asia must endure the acidic takeaway of hazy entertainment, respiratory engorgement and other painful permutations of stressful estrangement.
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(23 September 2019)

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  1. Date: 10/7/2019 9:40:00 PM
    Wow. Amazing and eye opening.
  1. Date: 9/23/2019 6:20:00 PM
    Just a VVSS on the present haze situation in SE Asia courtesy of our neighbouring country! The situation is rather bad this year especially as the skyline is foggy with a smoky acidic feel to lungs and eyes. People with respiratory tract problems, and heart disease are especially vulnerable to smog and haze particulates dangling in the air stream. Sigh!

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