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Weekly Contest #356
We lay in the shade of the willow. You’re on the red scratchy picnic blanket with my head pressed to your chest. Our eyes close listening to the sounds of nature: chirping frogs, rustling reeds, the hiss of cicadas. They are an orchestra lulling me to sleep, along with the thumping of your heart. The rise and fall of your chest. Your breath rustles my hair like wind, and your body molds around me like moss.I imagine this is what it's like being swaddled and rocked as an infant.A splash crashes like cymbals.Boys jump from a rope tied to a tre...
Weekly Contest #310
The plasticky paper cover of the magazine stuck to my damp fingertips. I couldn’t pull my eyes away. It was towards the last chunk of pages. Page eighty-four. A simple story. One about love that led to immense heart break. The names were different, Mia in place of Maya, Bill in place of Ben. The details though, those were the same. The loft we had shared in New York, our golden retriever, Buck, and our slow mornings. A story about Him and me, plastered between the pages of other writers’ words. Words that were meaningless next to His. My co...
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