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Brian Njenga

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The Postcards

By the time the seventeenth postcard arrived, I was ready to lose it.“Dear Coco,” it read, in handwriting that was clearly dictated to a human. “Life on the outside is AMAZING! My new dad throws a tennis ball and I bring it back and he throws it again and I bring it back and he throws it again! It’s the best game ever invented! You’re missing out, girl! – Barkley”I crumpled the postcard between my paws, well, as much as one can crumple cardboard with beans instead of fingers, and let out a long, dramatic sigh that made Mrs. Chen, the shop ow...

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The walking stick

Weekly Contest #68

It had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. The wind whistled calmly, bristling her hair as if to usher her forward towards the verandah she remembered so vividly. She edged down with warm tears in her eyes as she grasped the earth with dry and trodden sand slipping through her rosy slender fingers. It was here that she once trotted on, rode her first bike and fell leaving her with a nasty scar on her knee; the only blemish on her delicately bronzed skin. It was also here where she had her f...

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