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Weekly Contest #376
Better Off Dead It's been three thousand, two hundred and sixty seven days since I last saw daylight. Not that anyone really asks me if I miss it or anything. Honestly, if I could roll my eyes I would. A centipede crawls across my mouth. I hate those things. Their teeny tiny little furry feeling legs, touching me, just really grosses me out. Gerald, my pet tarantula, snaps him up really quickly though. He's like my best friend. He protects me from all these bugs crawling on my face, because whoever sealed my casket did a real bang up job, t...
Weekly Contest #373
**Sensitive Content Warning-Animal death is mentioned (birds)** The sky is falling. My forearm feels the sting of the sun's heat as I try to shield my eyes to no avail. A warm breeze that could only happen in the middle of a summer day brushes my pale green dress against my legs. Birds sing their daily songs in trees nearby. Another dead fly hits my wrist and I shake it off into the pile of a dozen or more scattered around my feet. People walk in the park like they usually do. No one else seems to notice the odd number of unmoving flies. Ma...
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