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Weekly Contest #324
THE SEA CHILD The boy dived and caught in his teeth the lobster. He jammed the sharp claws with his hands, to avoid any reaction, and threw a fatal bite to the abdomen of the crustacean. Even this day, the meal was assured. He had fallen from a ship, maybe... but he was not drowned, he was not dead, nor hunger, nor thirst. Sharks and storms had spared him. The stream had moved slowly along with all the objects left in the ocean, up to that vast expanse of floating debris. A sort of continent of the future, dominated by plastics, wood and an...
Weekly Contest #314
THE LION GIRLS It was the hottest day of the year… I was in an African country. I read a report about a criminal trial that intrigued me deeply. It involved a group of girls, kidnapped as children from rural villages. Locked in cages, they were trained like carnivorous beasts, feeding exclusively on raw, bloody meat, and forced to capture small prey for food. Once their wild-like training was complete, they were used to carrying out contract assassinations. They would set out in groups to prey on their designated victims. They covered thems...
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