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Submitted to Contest #310
Best-selling author, Caleb Marson cracked open his bloodshot eyes and peeled his cheek off the hardwood floor. His body’s check engine light was blinking. His head throbbed with a relentless, pulsing pain. Like a thousand bees stinging the inside of his skull. The light creeping in through the blinds burned his retinas. His mouth was dry and tasted sour, as if he had swallowed a handful of sand soaked in vinegar. His heart pounded in his palms. He stood up and knocked over an empty bottle of Absolute and held onto the sofa, attempting to sto...
Submitted to Contest #307
Mama sat up on the thin tattered mattress and coughed a red mist into the air before I could bring the old rag to her lips. “Sawyer, I’m getting worse, the pain I can’t take it anymore,” said Mama. A hacking force coming from somewhere buried deep in her chest has left her lungs screaming and her ribs sore. Seeing Mama like this caused my eyes to gloss over. “It’s gonna be okay Mama,” I whispered unconfident. I looked around at the patchworked walls of scavenged materials. Warped plywood and rusted metal sheets that me and Papa looted during...
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