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Yeah it had been a while. But hey, he’d been busy - what with getting by in a post-civilisation world.
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He breathed in, opened the trap and placed in his first roll for months. He pulled the end of the film, clipped it, closed it, and began winding. After a couple of turns he felt some resistance, but just busted through and headed out.
It had felt good, generally, though there was an ambient sensation of balls-up hanging over him.
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Inspecting the resulting negatives, he found his rewards: overlapping, lost frames, spacing issues…
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‘It’s shit to be back,’ thought the Pipes Man, sucking back a heart-shaped puff of smoke. He re-exhaled: ‘Shitty shit shit.’
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