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Submitted to Contest #331
A knife to the chest did little to stop the wolf from knocking Corporal Urs Reitter of the Imperial German Army onto the ground. He landed face down in the snow with both arms pinned under his chest and no air in his lungs as the full weight of the wolf slammed between his shoulder blades. Reitter wheezed. A puff of hot breath was all the warning he received before the wolf bit at the meat of Reitter’s shoulder. Only his thick winter coat saved Reitter from a rabbit’s death. It wasn’t the type of violent demise he braced for when he enlisted...
Submitted to Contest #297
The clocks stopped on November 10th, 1920, at precisely 4:29 PM. Daniel Horatius Triggs first noticed on the heirloom pocket watch he was nearly finished cleaning. The gears inside were still ticking away, steady as a mechanical heartbeat, but the hands remained unmoving. Puzzled, Daniel checked the time against his own wristwatch. If he could figure out how long ago the first timepiece stopped working, he might be able to figure out what had been dislodged to cause the malfunction. Only the wristwatch also read 4:29. The hands of both watch...
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