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Submitted to Contest #218
Frozen sand crunched under my yellow rain boots, gnawing like teeth on stale bread. The neon rubber bickered with snow slumbering in heaps, heavy on my eyes, aching. The sky burned in my lungs, crisp winter afternoon mingling with pine. It blinded me as it blended into the lake. Geese bent into letters across the coastline, mournful honks rippling. Stragglers. Today is the same as every Alice and Whitt Birthday. Alice stomped, splintering the frozen reservoirs pinned into pockets of sand. Snap, SNAP, snapped bones. I shuddered at the reverb,...
Submitted to Contest #212
Oh mourning dove of my heart,you inconsolable cooing thing,each beat riddled with grief. You alone know my beloved ashes, cloudy feathers sarcophagusing my blood and veins. You run away with every sunrise yet you find yourself unchanged. You lacerate my words and turn every saturated childhood memory pale. You know mourning in the morning before stale dawn, the ache when there is no face to place your love. By night you are silenced by the heat of theMoon.Souris-A mourning dove...
Submitted to Contest #210
BBC Breaking News, May 28, 1986, 17:00. Two Scientists have been spotted on the Kingsferry Bridge, fleeing London. They are now travelling by foot and are speculated to be attempting to flee the continent. More updates are expected shortly as law enforcement arrives on the scene.Police cars droned like air sirens as Eliza sprinted with Marty off a dirt road into farmland, not daring to look back, breaths coming quickly, too loud. Calm down, Eliza's mind raced. Shut up. They shrank behind a low garden wall, damp stone cool through Eliza’s thi...
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