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Weekly Contest #343
People think that when you’re rock climbing, any little slip, and down you go. That can happen, though less often than we imagine. Often, the problem starts before you realize it’s a problem. I’m alone, un-roped, climbing rocks. What could go wrong? It never had been a problem - not a big one anyway. Certainly not one of those fracture nightmares. This time, as before, I folded myself into the body-width vertical crack leading straight up the cliff. With back against one wall of the body-sized slot, and my boots against the other, I step up ...
Weekly Contest #339
He couldn’t quite remember waking. It felt a bit like losing hold of a dream. No matter. He opened his eyes wide to to greet the not-quite-dark dawn. He’d read a book once that had called it, like its twin the dusk, a crack between two worlds. A place of magic. Magic? Maybe. But special certainly. Dusk and dawn were the only times the creatures of the day, and the denizens of night, passed one another, like ecological shift workers. He stretched, sniffed, and recognized the smell of coffee in the air. It was comforting. It called to him. It ...
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