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Weekly Contest #353
CW: Illness, death, grief We each carried a walking stick, stripped smooth by Dad’s pocketknife. My little brother, Ben and I followed his broad frame through thick limbs and tall grass, trusting he knew the way. Mom packed our lunches, deli meat and American cheese on white bread, mustard bursting through the crusts. Warm chocolate chip cookies softened through brown paper bags. We carried olive green thermoses, ours for water, Dad’s steaming with black coffee. I loved sipping out of the lid. He quizzed us on the names of trees, taught us n...
Weekly Contest #351
The undersides of soft pink bellies drifted overhead. Vincent raised a hand to shield his eyes. The sky was a cloudless, brilliant blue. In every direction, joyful, round pigs flew with abandon, their wings disproportionately small. For a moment, he forgot to breathe. Vincent clamped a hand over his mouth. He’d used the idiom in a poem the day before, a phrase meant to mean never. Nothing had ever come of his words. They had always stayed safely where he left them, harmless ink on a page. A man on a parked car looked up and laughed. “Whe...
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