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Weekly Contest #340
To be completely honest with you, as a rule, I usually don’t care for men. There are of course exceptions to the rule: Grandpa for one, Leo at A Dog’s Day Out for another. And of course, Max. I’m sure there are others, or have been, but you’ll have to forgive me for not being able to call them to mind immediately—the number is vanishingly small. It’s nothing personal. But you have to understand where I’m coming from. First and foremost is their size. I understand there’s nothing humans can do about walking on two legs like absolute maniacs....
Weekly Contest #336
At my birth, my mother, having run through the names of all the other pious women she could remember off the top of her head on my sisters, gave her infant daughter a name she thought fitting of my dark hair and even darker eyes. Salome, the girl who would be responsible for culling the head of St. John the Baptist. Cursed. “I’ll name you for the temptress,” she said as she rocked her swaddled babe, no longer than a loaf of barley bread. “A girl with a curse is a girl who knows how to survive.” I looked the most like her of all the children....
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