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Weekly Contest #279
(This story contains mild substance abuse, violence, and gore.)My designation is DEBR81N of Casprius 8. My species is predatory, feeding on neural matter in carbon-based lifeforms. A friend told me the primitive primates of this weird smelling planet had the richest gray matter in the galaxy. Word is they are sentient but only use about ten percent of it. How pointless. Sounds delicious though.These humans aren’t very perceptive. I have been hiding on the underside of this desk surrounded by these beings for hours. No one has noticed me. The...
Weekly Contest #245
The water was wonderfully clear and calm for an early Spring morning. The traffic on the lake was up four-fold for that time of the year, but the impending total solar eclipse had brought people in droves to Southern Indiana. Everyone was traversing the lake looking for an ideal spot to set up or anchor to watch the celestial event. The water would have looked like a smooth mirror, if not for the boat traffic. Brad Powell steered his Nautic Star across the lake with a bottle of Yuengling dark lager in bottle cosey. He had a disinterested loo...
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