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Submitted to Contest #275
She saw a black cat. Her arms were outstretched whenever she moved, and her fingers spread like tree branches. Her large head remained still. Only her knees bent as she walked. Her unerring, straight-line movement required pausing on the thick layer of fallen leaves for every turn. The wind would occasionally blow her curly blue strands into her eyes. She would blink. And through those thin lines in her vision, she continued following the black, raised tail. She would repeat – kitty. She tripped over her heel and fell on the damp, autumn lea...
Submitted to Contest #272
I stared at the portrait of Dr. Guillotin for a long time, holding my own head in my hands, when I finally got access to a mobile phone and the internet in the twenty-first century, here in a building in New York, where I’ve lived for the past two decades. That satisfied half-smile and the ridiculous white wig under which, I’m sure, his greasy, sticky hair reeked, stays with me even now. However, I quickly learned, after searching online, that he didn’t actually invent the device that beheaded me back in 1793 in Paris. Innocent! Of course.Af...
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