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Submitted to Contest #291
The lifeboat rocked gently on the endless expanse of ocean, the horizon stretching in every direction without a hint of land. Above, the sky deepened into the purple hues of twilight, and a single ship flickered in the distance, barely visible against the fading light.Hours earlier, the sun had hung high, scorching their already parched skin. They had barely spoken then, too exhausted to do more than ration out their last drops of water and shift their weight on the hard wooden slats. The ocean stretched endlessly, a vast and indifferent mir...
Submitted to Contest #192
Mark sat in his cubicle just watching it. The “it” was a little drinking bird bobbing up and down into a water-filled coffee mug. Both the bird and the mug were a gift in honor of some holiday, whose name escaped Mark. The holiday was one of those new holidays that had been invented in recent years to make the drones feel better about being drones. National Employee Appreciation Day? National Worker’s Day? No, that one sounded like something that came out of the Soviet Union during the height of communism. ...
Submitted to Contest #47
You pull the little brass colored key from your pocket and insert it in the lock to the industrial looking, matte silver mailbox. The apartment building is nearly fifty years old, and it doesn’t exactly cater to high-end renters. When the builder installed this mailbox, he was thinking function over form. It is plain but sturdy. He was probably hoping that it would outlast the building—one less thing to have to worry about repairing or replacing. The patinaed lock even still functions, though you have to kn...
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