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Submitted to Contest #219
His ears are bursting and he doesn’t know why. How it’s happening is known, why is another question. After again running his fingers over its muddy floor, he bends his knees to send himself to the water’s surface. Although impossible, his brow is covered in cold sweat. A Brown Trout hovers nearby, nonplussed by the ascent. Gasping, he kicks his way to air and nestles into a bed of pebbles. Nothing. Again, nothing.Rolling himself over them, he shuts his eyes and lets the sun lift the cold tarp left by the ...
Submitted to Contest #218
Touch them and they will die. A gust of French tarragon graced his nose, breaking his otherwise all-consuming lavender entombment. Such fussy roots. But they are worth it. The knob, textured like a Baroque fixture, caressed his fingers like a hollow Gorgon's head, encrusted his palm with an ancient residue—the kind that accumulates in bathrooms shared by brothers. Streams of formless heat, like a sauce that still smells only of steamed milk, encircled his temples as he groped in the dark for another wa...
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