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Submitted to Contest #94
The garden is beautiful, the fruit trees and twirling vines a resplendent wave of greens and golds and blue-orange-and-red medleys. Before this, she has only known the darkness of the earth. No one had told her that the darkness could produce such splendid things.“Wow,” she says, and the man at her side smirks in satisfaction.“Pretty great, right? And the best part is –” He nudges her with his elbow. “We’re in charge.” He pauses. “Well, I am. But you can help.”She turns in a slow, wondering circle, blinking at the bright, incandescent beauty...
Submitted to Contest #90
She didn’t decide to go until the last moment, sitting in the car line waiting to drop off the boys before heading into work. It washed over her, that sudden tsunami of need, and she phoned into the office, fingers shaking as she punched the lurid green contact on her screen, citing an unforeseen family emergency, and Beth Ann, always so suspicious of sudden sick days, didn't even pause to question the urgency in her voice when she told her to go, take care of whatever was needed.The drive to her childhood home was as familiar and interminab...
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