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Weekly Contest #169
I have always believed in ghosts and things that go bump in the night, so nobody was surprised when I applied to take a job as live-in caretaker to the town’s locally rumored witch. Miss Elizabeth Johnson is a thin, short woman who oozes elegance and diplomacy. She has never married and will forever wear black dresses that are always outdated, think Edwardian style, if you will. Her long hair never leaves a perfectly wrapped bun, and her bright green eyes always seem to know more than anyone else. But I have always thought that is because sh...
Weekly Contest #138
Lisa Danbury looked over the dark town from her apartment’s tiny balcony. The light from the sun and moon had been lost to earth years before she had been born. Since the Government had forced everyone to use solar power a year before the sun faded, power plants and factories had only lasted for a year or two after. She had heard stories about people being killed over things that made artificial light until that was gone too. She had seen flashlights when she had been small but as with the sun and candles the batteries for the batteries died...
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