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Weekly Contest #71
Smoke filled the kitchen as the ringing of alarms echoed throughout the halls. A tall, thin woman, the homeowner named Val, ran into the kitchen to open the stove, the source of the smoke. Opening the lid of the aged stove, she grabbed the tray of cookies with her mitted hand and quickly dropped the tray on the counter before opening the kitchen window. The smoke quickly made its way out of her house and into the open outside air, clearing the room enough that she could breathe again. “That was way too close,” Val said, “Everything was almo...
Weekly Contest #52
“That’ll be $5.89, sir.” I gave the cashier at ten dollar bill, quickly telling him to keep the change before grabbing my hot dog and walking away from the strong smell of smoke and grease into the hustling crowd of people walking along the concrete. It didn’t matter if they were a walking suit and tie or just a mundane tourist; no one paid any mind to me holding something that would probably give me a heart attack in a decade. I wasn’t too far from my forties now, and aside from a few occasional migraines and a physical inability to whistl...
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