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Weekly Contest #174
Alex LapeReflected ShadowsNeil hurried his pace as he strolled down bustling midnight streets of Sacramento, crinkling his nose as the noxious smell of rotten eggs seemed to well up from its sewage system. The meeting spot designated in the text he got couldn’t be three more blocks from the stoplight he had recently passed. A text from none other than his old friend Alphonse somehow managed to strike an ominous sense of dread in Neil, yet he found himself instinctively drawn to seeing what his former partner/handler sought from him.&nbs...
Weekly Contest #139
Alex Lape(Warning: Contains themes of Teen Pregnancy)Lost in SuburbiaWednesday, August 12 2009Today was my first official day as a Freshman in High School. Everything started off a bit slow, ya know, they dragged all of us down to the auditorium for some boring ass three hour Orientation. It was pretty standard; one of the track coaches Mr. Donkey (and I’m not kidding - that’s his real name) started ranting of about how the school’s so excited to have us, how we were now “part of the family”, and how if we followed the Six Pillars of go...
Weekly Contest #137
The Tiger and The SongBird By Alex Lape As the last bus en route to the Alamo reached its final stop, Alvin Curazo readied the last crumpled twenty dollar bill he had in his pocket to pay the driver before stepping into the fiercely breezy San Antonio night sky. The bus driver was affable enough, a short old African American man with a thin graying mustache who paired a warm, welcoming smile and laugh with a razor sharp wit that he used to “spit game” to his more attractive female passengers. As the man took Alvin’s bus fare, the kind o...
Weekly Contest #127
By: Alex Lape There were very few words Adrian Tippen found to give meaning to his otherwise chaotic and volatile life - one of them being security. And security was exactly what Adrian found when he pretty much made a mad dash out of Riggsburg, New Hampshire as soon as the final bell of his senior year at Brutus H. Heddings High School rang out. As soon as he felt the ignition of ‘89 Camaro turn over, Adrien knew that Riggsburg and all the grievances he had with that godforsaken town would figuratively and literally be in his rearview mir...
Weekly Contest #90
“One Long Winter”By Alex LapeI guess as a species, we’ve finally done it. We’ve finally found a way to screw up this planet and turn it into a giant revolving death trap in the middle of space. Good job, humanity. All we had to do was safely dispose of all nuclear weapons in the 2037 Atomic Accord which was five years ago. But nope, some idiot just had to mess that up, too. Why would Lady Luck ever make life THAT easy for humans, when someone can just mess up, detonate every nuke in the last payload that was meant to be shipped off to space ...
Weekly Contest #87
I must say, it has always amazed me that despite how often humans have touted themselves as “the most intelligent life forms”, they’ve always had the capacity to be easily duped if appealed to their vices, their hopes, and even their insecurities ( and we all know much of those they got). It’s all quite simple, really: you just have to find what they're desperate for, what they can’t live without, what they’d give anything to get - and many times their base instincts will get the better of them. Who am and how do I know all of this, you ask?...
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