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Submitted to Contest #257
“So what are we gonna do, kid?” Hamlet brought the phone screen closer to his eyes, all but ignoring Yorick. His thumb scrolled through his daily feed of quirky TikToks. There’s that one cheese-making video he’s seen everywhere lately. “Ignoring it, sure, sure…” Yorick plopped himself next to Hamlet on the couch, bones poking uncomfortably into Hamlet’s knees. Hamlet landed on a video of a tiny kitten. A calm voiceover drifted out of the speakers. “Sometimes, when we aren’t sure of ourselves, we second-guess facts we definitely know ar...
Submitted to Contest #256
Claire cast a quick glance around the gym, before turning back to her team’s first match. She’d been in plenty of fencing competitions, but not one that had mixed-gender teams. It was all a little exciting. Next to her, Sarah shifted from foot to foot. Claire put a hand on her shoulder. “Hey, it’ll be fine.” Sarah nodded. It was James Novach, their foil captain, against a broad-shouldered hunk of a man with the name “Holdson” stitched on his back. If she wasn’t so in the zone, she’d be pretty into their enemy. The referee, an older man in a ...
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