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Weekly Contest #367
The evening gloom hung as heavily as my eyelids as I stood to attention outside the Bellington Manor Hotel. The luminescent glow of the lobby behind me cast my gangly shadow across to the other side of the road, where the little cafés and boutique shops sat dark and empty. At least the day shift has something to watch, I sulked to myself, nothing interesting ever happens on nights. The last sign of life I had seen had been the miserable of Mr. Deacon (who hadn’t tipped), back early from some stuffy business meeting and keen to have a qu...
Weekly Contest #300
The sun was sinking behind the treeline when John first glimpsed the town. His old wagon had creaked and groaned along the last mile of disused path. A dozen days worth of dust filled the creases in his brow and stung his eyes when he wiped away the sweat; he longed for a hot bath and a cold beer. He had considered stopping to rest before night fell, but his determination had paid off, as his destination began to apparate in the clearing ahead. A ghostly silhouette in the haze of dusk. Once a small but thriving go-between station, Cupid’s Cr...
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