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Weekly Contest #293
Part I Even with my forehead pressed against the train’s only window, the world outside blurs into a shapeless haze. My thumb absentmindedly traces the “L” engraving on the locket grasped in my hand like it could actually take me back. As if I could outrun the fate that has haunted me for five years. I am running to the far corner of the Earth as fast as I can get there. And yet, every time I get on this train, I find myself back on it within the next hour, retreating right back, but this time, I’ve made my decision. My fina...
Weekly Contest #292
Prologue Joy, happiness, life, creation—the spark of beginning, the heartbeat of earth itself, the endless manifestation of color and beauty and light—blossoming, growing, unfurling into something infinite. And then, one day, nothing. The world, once bursting with radiance, was swallowed whole, devoured by an oblivion so complete that even memory faded to greyscale, leaving behind only the cruel, inescapable taunt of black and white, a silent mockery of what once was. Shadows of what had been clung to the charred land beyond our shelter...
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