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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Dear Readers, Hope you enjoyed this piece.

Just as a fun side game, see if you can spot the FOUR deliberate 'mistakes' that I inserted into the text, four pieces of factual info that are just plain wrong.

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Jon T's avatar

I may not know enough about facts to find mistakes but i’ll try. Thank you for diversion!

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Jon T's avatar

Layers!

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Oh baby, you want layers? We got layers: thick ones, flimsy ones, completely threadbare ones...

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Sean Thomas McDonnell's avatar

Um. That was perfect.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks so much Sean, coming from you that is high praise indeed. I'm so happy my pieces are resonating with writers whose work I really admire.

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Sean Thomas McDonnell's avatar

Well, count me a fan. Excited to read more of your work. ❤️

"Of course she should have known - we did, didn't we?" 🤣

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Bradley Vee's avatar

And the Palme d'Or goes to...[drum roll] Murph!

That was a fantastic story, man. With references from B.B. to Frank Zappa, what's not to love? Oh, and the ending. Bruh.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks so much, I'm really pleased that you liked it Bradley.

It's funny, I took the Suzy Creamcheese from a super-obscure 60s garage band called Daddy and His Patches. Never even knew about Frank Zappa using that name.

It might be a fun game to play to tag all the many film and pop-rock references I stashed in the story as easter eggs.

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Bradley Vee's avatar

Because of the Bardot, I want to listen to Serge Gainsbourg.

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Bradley Vee's avatar

Me likee! "Ca pourra changer" is a banger too.

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Jon T's avatar

Damn. That was amazing.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks a lot Jon. It's very encouraging that you dig it.

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EJ Trask's avatar

ok I loved this

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks EJ. Glad it worked for you.

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