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Weekly Contest #359
Dandelion Farming Martin only returned to South Jersey because his younger brother had been killed in a car wreck. That was one of the reasons, a very good one, on why he didn’t want to be back there. His career had finally been on track in Houston, he had gotten that piece about the Medicare scammers published in Texas Monthly and the story about the lady who lived with the tigers. He imagined himself leaving Abilene and joining the Houston Chronicle soon. That’s all he wanted, to write stories for the state’s best newsp...
A CONNECTICUT MEMORY For Carmen His mother looked so sad standing there at the beach holding onto her melting soft serve in a wafer cone that he could only think of one thing. The ending of Truman Capote’s short story “A Beautiful Child,” when Truman remembered his late friend Marilyn Monroe and thinking of her tragic end, he wondered why everything in life had to turn out so rotten. What was she even doing in Florida? This part of Pasco County looked like a “Mad Max” movie with junkers speeding...
Christmas Story The promotional brochure for the new development on the far outskirts of Pittsfield promised “the great outdoors, and the great indoors!” That may have been true of The Dakotas, but that’s not why they moved there. Ernesto owned a direct stake in these condos, unlike the unit they were living in before, so it was an unimaginative but necessary way to save on rent. And for a time Ernesto and Consuelo were much happier at the new place because it was more spacious than the old cramped condo. It w...
Weekly Contest #358
Walk up the Mountain Evelyn fell into a deep depression in 2025. She struggled to get out of bed in the morning, slept a good part of the day on the couch downstairs in their home in Beacon, and watched reality TV in endless doses. Crying jags that came out of nowhere accented the awful scenario that went on for the better part of three months. At the height of this period, at its very apex, Sean even invited Evelyn’s mom from Scottsdale to come live with them at the end of August. She lived in the spare bedroom of the tract ...
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