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Submitted to Contest #335
“Life is crazy,” Erik murmured to my left. I kept my eyes glued to the sky, fixed on a particularly bright star above my head, which I guessed was Venus. I sensed him in my peripheral vision, knew he had directed his gaze away from the heavens and waited expectantly. Only when a gust of wind blew so strong I thought it might send me into a faceplant, did I tear my eyes away from the sky and glance towards him. “Why?” I asked reluctantly. The hulking figure paused as I awaited his trite response. I’d seen too much of him lately. Every day sin...
Submitted to Contest #309
He sits in his worn-out, green corduroy armchair, inhaling the steam curling up from his teacup. The peaceful melody of crickets and cicadas wafts in through the open windows. The vaguely sweet scent of damp wood marks the muggy August evening. Darkness has already started falling faster by this time of year, each passing night pleasantly cooler than the last. August was his favorite month, the most nostalgic. As he grew older and felt acutely the accelerating pace with which life was slipping away from him, the pleasant pain of yearning tha...
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