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Submitted to Contest #86
I bought you chocolates and you bought me a peace lily. You told me that this lily, like it’s name, represents peace and tranquility. It was a fitting gift for an apology and made me feel insecure about the thoughtless box of chocolates I had given you. The reason behind the apology gifts seems so pointless now. We were in our last year of high school and we had both had agreed to go to the same university in the next city over to study English. I had been busy planning out what classes we could take when you shocked me by saying you n...
Submitted to Contest #85
Eighteen seemed like such a long time ago. In reality only three years had passed in the meantime, but for Marnie those those short years felt like a lifetime. Now twenty-one years old Marnie was making her way around Wellington for the first time since she left. Strolling through the cities streets, she passed cafes, shops and restaurants, some she could remember and others that must have popped up while she was away. After walking past a long drag of storefronts she came to a stop in front of a large high-rise building. Above the door of t...
Submitted to Contest #84
24 February 2025Gillian had just arrived at their holiday house with her family, though to call it a house would be rather generous. Sitting near the edge of a cliff overlooking the Sea, the tiny building consisted of just one room with furnishings that dated back to the 70s. It belonged to Gill’s grandmother Maggie, and Gill’s father Jack would bring the whole family here for two weeks every summer before he got sick. Gill’s mother, Marianne, suggested that it would be healing for the family to visit the house and get out and about in natur...
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