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Speak now. The command comes gently as the poison rolls down his throat. Some faint memory pools in his mind, whispering the remaining words, solid as ice, faint as steam. Or forever hold your peace. Forever. It never used to mean forever, really and truly forever, no go-backs, no redos, no second chances. Say what you want now or may the grave hold your words, cloistered away in your cold chest, buried so deep that not even the rot and maggots will be able to free it. The poison is a padlock, and he could hear the gears twisting out of alig...
Submitted to Contest #126
Ten... This year, I’ll be good. I’ve made the promise a thousand times. Everyone has. But this year I swear on Ol’ Mazie’s soul that I won’t do the same thing again. I’ll learn from my mistakes. I’ll remember what my mom told me when I was little. I won’t forget like I did last year. I promise I won’t. Nine... New year, new me. That’s what they say, when the spinning ball falls. But this time for real. No more hiding or lying or cheating or scamming or digging up the neighbors' flowers or sabotaging the school dan...
Submitted to Contest #109
...done great work...served a long time...decided to go a different way...thank you for your dedication...effective immediately...fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. I stared down at the amber beer, long since grown warm from my hands clenched around it. The din of the bar faded in and out as the conversation played again and again in my mind. Fired. Sacked. Laid off. How humans came up with such light words for such a heavy thing I will never understand. For all my time of watching them and lear...
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