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Weekly Contest #350
Ellen Anderson had lived long enough to know trouble didn't announce itself. It didn't knock, call, or send a letter. It just showed up like mud tracked across a clean floor, a door left ajar, or a stranger who didn't quite fit. Eighty-one years had taught her that. Eighty-one years, and she still trusted that feeling. She stood at the kitchen sink at 106 Arbor Court, holding a chipped teacup she'd owned for so long she couldn’t remember where it came from. Outside, spring had reluctantly come to North Haven. The snow was gone, the ground wa...
Weekly Contest #348
Thump. Thump. Thump. Somewhere between twelve and thirty, Daryl Whitecloud figured out that your body doesn’t care about your uncertainty. Your mind can turn a question over and over in the dark — pick it up, set it down, examine it from every angle — but your heart just keeps going. Steady. Insistent. It doesn’t give a damn whether you’ve got yourself figured out yet.―――First time Daryl heard the question, he was twelve, sitting in his grandfather's birchwood canoe on a lake so still it looked like glass. His grandfather lifted a cedar padd...
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