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Weekly Contest #368
I love a good second-hand shop. The dustier, the better. It’s like treasure hunting. What I hold in my hand is very clearly a lamp, exactly like what you’d expect to find a genie in, if you believe in that sort of thing. It’s dusty as heck, yet strangely, I’m not quite so sure I want to rub it. Examining it more closely, I series of thoughts occur to me, causing my attention to drift. If, by some miracle, a Genie did happen to pop out, I’d feel like using the wishes without having first paid for the lamp would inflict some kind of curse. I k...
Weekly Contest #211
I was driving my small truck full of storage pick-ups along the quiet country road on my usual weekly run. I owned a warehouse out beyond the forest that people would pay to discretely store things. Often it was odd stuff that they wanted kept hidden and incognito, with some of it being very peculiar or even spooky. Is this thing a part off of an alien ship? I might often speculate at an item. Is this some ancient, cursed tribal totem? Does this locked chest contain the ghost of a pirate? But it wasn’t my place to ask questions. People pai...
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