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Submitted to Contest #279
It's only been two hours since the smoke covered everything, turning midday into dusk. It doesn't look like our world anymore. The sunlight barely visible through this damned covering. A blanket of light hovers beyond the smoke, merging through it to ground level but unable to penetrate. Those few hours now seem an eternity. I and my sister Helen; we came to the city for a girls day out. A treat for her to get over that messy divorce, a break from her despair and with neither of us having friends we've been mostly inseparable since that poi...
Submitted to Contest #275
I watch and I whisper. I've done it for millennia. There is nothing new under this sun, we've seen it all time and again. We can't read minds but we know what you'll do. Those little expressions on your face, your eyes always give you away. Hell, even the hairs on your body, the sweat that comes off of you, these tell the tales of what's going on in your mind. We're the ones always close by, always within ear shot. The ones you feel breathing down your neck, the itch in your skin. It's no suprise to me that you called a Pastor for help, br...
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