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Weekly Contest #165
MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT MIRRORS REFLECT BACK OUR INNER SELVES. To some extent, they’re not wrong. There was so much blood. So much blood, and none of it my own. Well, save for the gashes on my arms from both my would-be victim’s nails and from the shards of glass blanketing the floor around us. The woman on the floor stared back at me, wide-eyed. She edged backward, the glass slivers chinking against one anoth...
Weekly Contest #146
The mixed candies in the glass bowl were a source of stirring anxiety for me. I should have been focused on what the good doctor was saying to me, but it was so hard to concentrate; the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and brown shellac glinting in the light of the fluorescent bulbs overhead. As if they had a mind of their own, my hands moved independently, fingers plucking the individual colors from the bowl and arranging them in symmetrical lines along the coffee table. It ...
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