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Submitted to Contest #316
The picture taking of it all takes forty-five minutes and the result is 114 new images in my phone’s my photo library. Half of these can be selected without a second thought and discarded to the delete folder, where they will sit in digital limbo with 567 other rejects until I do a mass ‘Delete all’. The instant rejects are mostly due to the following culprits: blurriness, squinted eyes, a finger slipping over the camera, lips parted mid-sentence as I suggest another angle. The shortlisting takes a little more time and care. This is where I ...
Submitted to Contest #307
Massachusetts, 1986I saw her at the first Sunday mass of the fall semester. Her back to me in our regulation pinafores and two long braids like black twine. The stained-glass window straight ahead, a hundred little colours bleeding into one.We were seated next to each other in calculus class because our surnames sat together alphabetically and she introduced herself, smiling. It was the roots of what I knew would be the friendship of my lifetime.She was new to school and everyone liked her immediately. She had a way of pulling you in like th...
Submitted to Contest #298
6.25amIt’s six twenty-five, the default iPhone alarm tells me, and I wake up not feeling groggy for the first time in five years. I feel alert, surge upwards and don’t hit snooze, also for the first time in five years. This morning is different because this is the day my life will change. I go through the usual motions: get in a cold shower, turn my head up towards the stream like a lizard bathes in sunlight. Stay in this position for three minutes, my skin becoming goose-pimpled and red, the pain fading to nothing. Brush teeth, put on the m...
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