This story has been removed. Why? Because it’s part of the Professor Porter Saga and will be formally published in a revised form.
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The final week of 2020’s prompt was from Leigh Kimmel: “A plumbing fixture suddenly stops working. On inspection, it turns out the cutoff valve has been turned off, but everyone denies having done so.” This was a tough one! I know nothing about plumbing. Neither, I suspect, do the ice fairies.
Mine went to Becky Jones and AC Young, who both wrote different and highly entertaining stories about goblins in the garbage.
