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Weekly Contest #361
When the Bulb Came BackFor eleven years, the lamp above Platform Two had not worked.No one remembered exactly when it had gone out. People remembered the storm, of course, because the storm had taken half the station roof, three chimneys from Station Road, and the old willow by the canal bridge. But nobody could say with certainty whether the lamp had died that night, or the week after, or quietly sometime during the long decline that followed.By the time anyone thought to complain, the station had already become the sort of place people onl...
Weekly Contest #358
Miri did not know she was the last.She knew only mud.Mud was the world, and the world was good when it was wet.It held the prints of beetles and the soft tunnels of worms. It remembered rain after the sky had forgotten it. It kept her belly cool and hid her from the silver beak of the heron that came walking through the reeds with the terrible patience of a thing that believed all small lives belonged eventually to it.Miri was no larger than a man’s thumb.She was brown, mostly, with a stripe down her back like a line drawn by a careful child...
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