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Submitted to Contest #235
What do you do when you have two minutes to run away from home?I drove away, fleeing the street I had always lived on. It was a street where houses stood isolated, the blinds were always down, and the windows were always shut. Neglected gardens wrapped the walls, with wild plants growing up the front, sprouting between the bricks. A few cars sat on the curb, but they were empty, each collecting dust as time passed. It had always been quiet, quiet enough to make the singing crickets deafen you, quiet enough to make you feel you were going mad...
Submitted to Contest #187
Hi, my name is Cheese. Well, that’s what my human seems to think anyway. She also seems to believe I am a male. Oh cheese, is she gonna be surprised to know how many kittens I’m carrying right now. I’m a hard working mother, to both my future kittens and my human, as she has been oblivious lately. Oblivious, did I use that right? English is my ninth language. Anyway, speaking of her, for the past five minutes I have been trying to notify her that I am currently stuck under her bed. I have been struggling to squeeze through so I decided...
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