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Weekly Contest #366
I should have known better than to pick up an extra shift this week. Life has been hard, and money is tight, but I would still much rather be out on the boat with my friends. This is the third… Fourth… Fifth… It’s now the fifth weekend in a row that I have been stuck working, forced to watch summer drift past me in Snapchat stories, as if life is happening elsewhere. I told myself I was being responsible by picking up more shifts, but deep down, I resented every moment I spent here, missing out while others enjoyed their freedom. I keep te...
Weekly Contest #365
Content warnings: Child murder, domestic violence, suicide. “Old hag!” TINK One. “Leave town, witch!” TINK Two “Murderer!” That’s peculiar. Three insults, but just two rocks were thrown today… THRASH The glistening of tiny shards of glass made a blanket across the living room floor, surrounding a lone brick with a message etched in black ink: KILL YOURSELF Helen rose from her rocking chair, shaking as she struggled to hold up her own weight and looked out the hole that used to be a window. She made eye contact with Mr. Wittakor across the w...
Weekly Contest #364
“I killed my husband.” Two decades of police work, and this was a first. In front of me sat the most fragile little old woman, and she just confessed to murder. Normally in a situation like this, we’d contact her loved ones and follow up with elder services, but two weeks ago this woman’s husband turned up dead in a motel. Something about his death has rubbed me the wrong way since I first entered the crime scene. My partner shrugged off my suspicions of foul play, told me I was just paranoid, and after the month I had, I almost believed him...
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