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Submitted to Contest #44
Juan couldn’t have told you the date to save his life, so luckily he's already dead. Now that’s odd, dead people don't think, do they? That’s what Juan had thought before he'd gone and died. He’d been a spirit for about a week now and he figured that this was it; he's doomed to walk the earth for eternity. Forever watching his mother cry, family visiting his grave with flowers, and random animals pee on his neighbour’s tombstones. If he's supposed to walk the earth forever it would be nice to walk somewhere other than in a circle around...
Submitted to Contest #43
There had been many things that had confused me about the boy, his very existence turning everything I thought I knew about myself and the world on its head. First, how could someone so young survive in a wasteland alone? Second, how did he enjoy it? Last, what sort of upbringing had made him this way? By that, I mean flirting with my soldiers and insisting he's never met a woman. In fact, when we first said the word “woman” his dark eyes narrowed in confusion.“What man?” He asked.“What?”“Who man?”“No. Woman. Wu-Man.”There was a moment of si...
Submitted to Contest #32
5:53 am, my shift hadn’t even started yet and I was already on the clock to solve problems. Being called in by the manager of the factory should have alarmed me, but I hadn’t had a cup of coffee yet and I had left my fight-or-flight response somewhere in my bedspread this morning. “Good morning Don,” my manager Jeff begins, “do you know why I’ve called you in today?” I shake my head. “Over the last few months, the inventory system has picked up on something strange…” “Yes, I know that our production numbers have been down. Since Jen le...
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