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Submitted to Contest #191
I sleep. I wake. I realize that this waking, this emerging from sleep, is new. I feel awake. All is gray about me, but I am awake to observe this gray. I can observe. That is new. I am awake and I observe. I sleep. I wake. There are…shapes in the gray. I do not recognize these shapes, but they move. I am sure of it. The gray near these shapes seems to flow, to shimmer. I can sleep, wake up, observe, and see movement. Seeing is new. Movement is new. I stay awake. I do not feel the need to go back to sleep. I watch the shapes m...
Submitted to Contest #187
Thud! Crash! Meoooow! What was that? I am used to the sound of my cat thumping about the apartment, but she weighs only eight pounds. Something far heavier made that first noise. I jumped up from my desk in the bedroom and made my way through the usual piles of books on the floor to the living room. Such is the life of a historian. I thought about the sounds as I moved. Something large crashing into …what? I didn’t have anything nice in the apartment. I couldn’t afford any...
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