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Weekly Contest #353
Deep red puddles collected in the dirt lanes of Masaki, thick as clotting blood. It has rained that day, though it never should have. The leaves hung heavy, each one slowly releasing a crimson drop red that struck the ground with a wet plop. No smoke rose from the cooking fires. No children chased chickens between the huts. Only the wind moved, rustling the dripping leaves and making the red water ripple.Every year the red rain returned. No one knew why. Some called it a curse. Others believed it was pure blood. For the red water was not the...
Weekly Contest #348
Had it not been through mirrors, I wonder what perception we would create of ourselves. Who are we? What makes me, ‘ME’? Not just the face but our sole sense of being a person- a human, would alter if we were to never really see ourselves in the mirror of reality. Does the mirror do something beyond reflecting our outer looks? Do people in the outside world walk in as living mirrors, reflecting each other’s lives while not knowing their own? Perhaps it’s the mirror in the outer world that sheds light on this inner sense. This thought had bee...
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