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Submitted to Contest #317
“Hello, stranger.” Standing in front of him, my heart pounding in my ears, my thumbs, my cheeks, I wait for recognition. He gazes at me skeptically at first, only a flash of hazel, green, brown as his eyes flicker my way and then back to his beer. I smile coyly, the one he loves so much. I can see him warming up, contemplating, and then his lips part and I’m greeted with those teeth, his teeth, stained and crooked from years of poor choices he’ll tell me all about in a moment. “Hello,” he replies, almost a coo. I long, long, long to reach ou...
Submitted to Contest #239
“The world is ending.” “You always say that.” A dark cloud hangs over the lake. It looks heavy. Slightly green. That’s no regular storm. We’re in your car. The seat heaters are on. I can feel my legs humming as the warmth seeps into my clothes, my skin. I hug my backpack tightly to my chest. “I mean it this time,” I say. You flip through radio channels. All you get is static. You used to say you could hear voices in the white noise. Isn’t that how people communicate with ghosts? Mother. Winter. Rotten. Home. You strung them together, as ...
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