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Submitted to Contest #175
Millenia ago: They had both knelt together at the spot, the ground around them barren, the bald hill sloping away from them like the curve of a skull. “Do it,” said his father. He looked up into his father’s eyes, and for the briefest of moments, saw in them pain like a bottomless grave. For a moment, neither spoke. Then his father nodded, and they breathed on the ground in unison. A sapling sprang up and muted green leaves appeared. “It will be here,” his father said then and gripped his son's arm. "It will be the final battle....
Submitted to Contest #117
Content warning: gore, violence“I’m looking for Pelagie.” No one on the veranda stirred. It was as if they were all trying to think, their eyes diverted up toward the ceiling fan above.“Pelagie?” repeated Samson.Koffi cupped his chin in his hand, rubbing the grey stubble of his beard back and forth. It was like sandpaper, three days post-shave. He winced: it was his mouth again.Angelica, next to him, let her feet dangle off her stool. Back and forth they went like pendulums. She breathed out long, as if she’d exhausted all her mental c...
Submitted to Contest #116
“Frequenting the alter won’t get you a by.” I frown and focused on the floor. Eva always makes this difficult, every single year. “You know what sorry means?” My heart does a number, a fast dance down to my stomach. “You know what it means, do you?” My mouth wobbles like a goldfish, like my goldfish, Hank. Me, 83, alone and the cat already gone. Hank and I lived together like two hamsters on opposite sides of a wheel: seamlessly, that is, until one of us runs too fast and we both fall off the whole thing. “You don’t,” she says. M...
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