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Submitted to Contest #90
I was young then, small and slender. I grew next to a small town in a wide park. Back in those days it was very peaceful. I used to watch the kids play in the grass nearby. One small kid, Marcus, used to try and climb my slim branches that could barely hold his weight. Every time his mother brought him to the park to play he would run to me like I was his favourite friend. She would often grip his little body and pull him away from me if he got too high, his little arms clinging to me for as long as he could while his shrill wails felt like ...
Submitted to Contest #88
He hadn’t meant for it to happen. It was just one of those things. They had just started popping up all over the place. Of course at first everybody thought it was some great media stunt, until things started to get bloody. You see, Rowan Fabio Keatan became the most famous fairy tale re-teller for all the wrong reasons. At the start of it all he really did just liked fairy tales. He liked to put twists on them, he liked to adapt and explore possibilities. And he was a good writer. Once you started reading one of his stories you just c...
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