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Weekly Contest #372
The first thing was the mug. I noticed it on a Tuesday morning because I was already late for work. I had left it beside the couch the night before, half full of coffee that had gone cold while I watched television. I remembered thinking that I should bring it to the kitchen, but I decided I would do it tomorrow. When I woke up, the mug was sitting upside down on the drying rack, completely clean. I stared at it longer than anyone should stare at a mug, then laughed. I must have washed it. That was the explanation. I had washed it and forgot...
Weekly Contest #322
The wind carried dust through the hollow streets of Ashbourne. Once, people had called this a village. Now it was only bones: sagging roofs, broken fences, doors swinging loose on rusted hinges. The fields were gray and cracked, like old skin. Even the well in the square gave nothing but mud. Hunger lived here now. It sat in every doorway. It followed the children, thin as shadows.The elders had called for the Choosing. Their decree rang out like the toll of a cracked bell: Ashbourne cannot survive divided. One leader must rise. One voice, o...
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