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Inventions Я Us

Posted on September 1, 2016June 17, 2023 by Simon J. Wood

(300 words) When he looked it wasn’t there. Thomas Edison Jr., the proprietor of Inventions Я Us, shifted a pile of complex schematics, exasperated. Where on Earth was his cigar cutter? Someone knocked. “Come in.” A young Chinese woman entered. Edison adjusted a red bow tie. “Blossom Chan I presume?”

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