300 word Fiction: “The Dartanian reminisces”

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I pretend I am human. I learnt to smile a few centuries ago. After I was forced to learn Arabic and Chinese,that is. It is not very difficult, you see. What irks me during the process is the voice in my head that knows how much my face hurts to twist. But the…