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Weekly Contest #377
When I died and came back as a ghost I was kind of embarrassed about it. I’d been squished by a semi-truck and I guess by ghost logic you look like your body at the time of death. So I wasn’t a particularly attractive ghost to look at. I didn’t really know where else to go, so I kept going to my community college classes. I’d sort of go home afterschool, except my mom had terrible anxiety and I figured she wouldn’t want to see the semi-dismembered ghost of her twenty year old daughter while she was eating spaghetti. So I’d just stand outside...
Weekly Contest #376
When I heard Mrs. Rosenthal was getting a dog, it seemed perfectly natural. She had just lost her husband, and lots of people in the neighborhood had dogs. I looked forward to making polite conversation with her about it. But when I saw the thing, I nearly swallowed my tongue. Mrs. Rosenthal, sweet little Mrs. Rosenthal, was walking one of the most muscular, misshapen beasts I’d ever laid eyes on. Tight muzzling gear was wrapped not just around its mouth, so it could hardly breathe, but also up and down its body, so it could barely walk. Sti...
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