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Weekly Contest #311
I flinched at the bright sunlight. Mum always made sure to open the door slowly to let me adjust, but I still wasn’t quite there. She knelt to my level to make me feel safe, to make me feel that we were a team against the snarling evil of the outside world. She spoke softly, as she always did. Her voice a light and soothing song - even though I could only understand some of the words. Together - we step outside. The smell of the flowers is instantly overwhelming; pollen clawing its way up my nose and forcing me to sneeze. I hated that - dist...
Weekly Contest #310
They say when it rains it pours; today that was certainly true. The deluge was managing to slither through a crack in the rotting ceiling, collecting in a bucket I’d found under the sink. The tone of it hitting the rusted steel was irregular enough that it refused to fade into the background; I couldn’t help but mark the sound of every drop. It was doing nothing for my patience, already stretched thin by the trek back to the cottage amidst the stormy conditions. Half frozen, utterly drenched, heels burning from the rub of the new leather of...
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