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Amanda Taylor

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Ships That Don't Come In

Weekly Contest #352

Catherine O’ Brady could sense something was coming, she could smell it, feel it in her very soul. Not wasting time with finding her slippers, she rushed upstairs to the spare bedroom, the hardwood floors creaking and whining under her bare feet. She flung the door open, her heart hammering inside her chest as she continued across the floor. The room was bathed in murky grey light, the curtains whipping in the breeze from the open windows. She opened another door and ascended a shorter flight of stairs, and upon opening that door she stepped...

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Leave it to Fate

      Victoria Hunter was no stranger to flying. Her job demanded red-eye flights in much smaller, less-reliable planes several times a month. She had just gotten off a plane that had brought her from Africa where she had been working for the last three weeks. Now, it was two-thirty in the morning and she was in Seattle, waiting for the call to board. She looked around her. A mom with two kids, both fast asleep in the chairs on either side of her, looked like she was struggling to stay awake. A few men wearing s...

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