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Weekly Contest #73
It was still early, the feeble wintry rays barely penetrating through the grimy windows, when I shivered out of my troubled sleep. The pet shop was shadowy and cold, the silence interspersed with soft hisses and murmurs as the animals were waking up. Pericles and Artemisia, the pair of tortoises who lived in the terrarium, were still slumbering inside their carapaces, immobile and inert, and Aaz, the giant boa constrictor, was already in hibernation mode. Ara, the giant Amazon, was coughing and hawking, his feathers ruffled, his mien bleak. ...
Weekly Contest #72
Sequence One. Adagio The bright yellow lights somehow compensated for the dismal décor of the premises, but still, the grey carpet and the bare nondescript walls were not exactly eye-feasting material. Ariadne saw no point in decorating her small windowless office. She was replacing the company’s graphic designer who was on maternity leave, and her contract was about to expire. So the only concession to embellishment was an Alpine landscape pinned in front of Ariadne’s desk. She took the photo for the poster herself at home, in Italy. She ...
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