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Weekly Contest #350
We rolled up to The Raging Waters Resort in our van stuffed with kids and parents all possessing high hopes and grand expectations. This was our first mistake. The hotel looked decent online (because everything can look magical online), but once we got inside… it was giving big “Grandma’s guest room meets Blockbuster clearance aisle” energy. There were no glamor filters on the reality of this wreck.We came for a birthday celebration with my kids aged 9 months to 12 years (yes, our family is a traveling sitcom). The waterpark was supposed to ...
Weekly Contest #342
Ferris sat in the cold, hard hospital chair next to her bed. Seventy-two hours ago, Tess entered Resting Meadows Hospice Center. Ferris agreed it was time to allow his beloved grandmother to rest comfortably while waiting for death’s arrival. It meant all measures of fighting to save her life had switched to making sure she was comfortable and at peace. No more hospital wires, IV needles with painful pokes and jabs, or heart monitors to track her pulse.The room was small, quiet, and bland. What was it about death that required the ambiance t...
Weekly Contest #309
I checked my black Casio for the fifth time in two minutes. Just like phones, watched watches don’t speed up. The rain was relentless, and I was beyond uncomfortable, drenched and chilled to the bone.I’d responded to the post two days ago. The job: write a memoir in twenty-four hours. Ten thousand bucks. No questions. No names. It sounded simple enough, and I was ready. A freshly minted MFA from NYU, fueled by ambition and a healthy dose of arrogance. I was primed for a challenge like this.It was going to be easy money. If she showed up. If ...
Weekly Contest #299
Be it Bernadoodle, Schnauzer or the everyday calico cat, pet owners will, from time to time, inevitably blurt out bizarre declarations or question the unthinkable. After the peculiar order of words fall from their lips, they may momentarily stop in real time to question either: Did I actually just say that? Or Do I really want to know the answer?The unusual becomes commonplace with pets, eventually just another endearing quirk. You might hear these pet owners saying this to their pets and perhaps some children. We’ll save that for another ti...
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