O b s o l e t e B e r n a r d M a n i c k a m
“You are paid to tell me what’s going obsolete in the future, so do your job!” Ben sat in front of his screen as his boss shuts the video call. On the side, he received a text message: He thinks you’re losing your touch, you doing okay? Ben ignored it. He grabbed his notebook; it had a faded black hard case with the words OBSOLETE debossed on it. What made it ominous was the frantic strikethroughs on the word, like someone was trying to carve it out. Flipping through the pages, a few handwritten headlines could be seen. Dec 2019: COVID-19 strikes; travelling will go obsolete. Aug 2020: People underestimates the pandemic; freedom will go obsolete. July 2022: Life is confined indoors; outdoor entertainment will go obsolete. Ben reaches the latest page. Though it wasn’t his first time reading what he wrote, his hands still shivered till he tossed the
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