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Submitted to Contest #295
He wanted nothing more than to take out his pocket knife and cut the tension that had built up in the room. Danny imagined it was something you could see. Tension always felt so palpable, like it could be grabbed and shaken. Or maybe it formed a thick mist, that would explain why the air felt so heavy. He was surprised when his sister first told him it was invisible. From a young age, he relied on her for descriptions, and she was more than up to the task. She never treated him any different because he was blind, unlike his parents. But righ...
Submitted to Contest #287
Every conversation with her mama flowed smoother with a pitcher of southern sweet tea. When Rosie was a young girl, much younger than she is now, she would fall asleep listening to the women of the house talk, punctuated with the clinking of ice in their glasses. She’d close her eyes listening to the ice make music with the windchimes on the porch, the laughing and the gossip becoming the lyrics to a secret song just for her. She never knew what they were talking about, just listening to the lullaby of their voices. Inevitably, the cackling ...
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