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Weekly Contest #102
TW: Rape, murder1968, September 2ndFireflies jittered in circles around me, little fallen moons floating. We watched the world bathed in rubicund light, flares rocketed into the clouds with a snap and smoke. I thought they were fireworks and bounced with glee, waiting for the whistle, the crackle as prismatic shooting stars rained down, fulminating shattered snakes hissing with hostility and then bursting into a blaze. But I was not met with the sonatas of gunpowder dusting the sky like spilled eyeshadow, arson turned to art. I was only met ...
Weekly Contest #101
Alice-Where do you go when you run? Do you sprout wings from your forearms and kiss the sun with their colorful array?Do you remember that day? The sky was a collage of turbid dishwater pasted in scraps with the occasional streak of still-wet opaque Elmer’s Glue peeking through. Scattered silver glitter zigzagged, static from the TV screen when you couldn’t connect to a channel. It buzzed into focus when you dialed the knob a centimeter clockwise and a helicopter fizzed like the ZotZs Surie mailed you in that year that was a mine hiding unde...
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