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Submitted to Contest #320
Mist always hung low over the forest, but never this low, it was as if the heavens were sagging with the weight of what had happened. A fire had burned through the night, smoke still billowed up from the smouldering trees, rising to mingle with the morning rainfall. The police had combed the aftermath and found a burned out convertible, a mysterious hatch in the ground, and the corpse of Jacqueline Crowe. She was only a year out of high school, about to go to college in Albany, but as she lay peeling in the back of the blackened convertible,...
Submitted to Contest #319
“Mittens. 3 months. 50%... Hmm… I wonder what that means. I’ve never noticed that before, written on the side of this… well. What is this? Where am I? Oh, this is overwhelming.” Mittens scrambled around the room for a moment in terror. Eventually, he came to a stop and slumped onto his sawdust bed. “Let’s take a moment to think. I remember waking up here, in this room... but nothing before that. What else can I be sure of? I have hands, I can see those. I’ve got fingers, toes, a nose, and if I can see all of those then I must have eyes too. ...
Submitted to Contest #318
Seventeen weeks of anticipation. Seventeen! I’ll never know why they schedule television so far in advance. With showtime breathing down my neck, I continued to smile like a fool. It’s a very unfortunate habit, the smiling. Although I suppose it’s how I ended up with my job, a winning smile will get you far in this industry. But it won’t get you everything. After all, I’m only a secretary.To a superhero. Not just any superhero either, I am the secretary of the most powerful hero there is: Infinity. That may seem like a dream come true for mo...
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