On a dark winter pavement lit by streetlamps, with old snow along its edges, a black and tan Dobermann with a small glowing light on her collar walks on a short loose lead beside a South Asian man in his thirties in a padded jacket, who shines a torch on the ground ahead of them.

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The Upturned Plug

You cross the kitchen in the dark for a glass of water. You know this floor. You could walk it with your eyes shut, and right now you more or less are. Then your bare heel finds a plug left lying prongs up, and you hop about in silence, swearing in a whisper.

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