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Submitted to Contest #326
I remember the laughter first. Not mine - the children’s. It was a Saturday, and the sky was shiny as a new nickel. That was the afternoon I brought my father his cigarettes and he told me not to go up to the mine anymore. His lungs were shot, but he still smoked, stubborn as the men of that time were. Back then his beard was more pepper than salt, his eyes still sharp beneath skin that hadn’t begun to sag. He carried that quiet authority children know to fear even though he never raised his voice. He was a scion of miners, proud of it, and ...
Submitted to Contest #150
Claire stared into the mirror, scrutinizing her appearance as she had done so many times before. It was easy to do as so little of what she saw was what she wanted to see. She looked for the smallest detail confirming less divide between the internal and external person. The stubble on her jaw stared back at her, refusing to go away even with the mountains of foundation and concealer plastered over it. The square features declining her pleas to soften. She had lived this way for a year already, waiting, always waiting, to be allowed t...
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