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Weekly Contest #357
Memories of Cinnabar I saw you today, floating, singing, gliding on the breeze by the window. They found me and put me in a jail with concrete floors and the smell of bleach in the air. They took away my name and gave me a number. My voice became a dry rasp, like the brittle scrape of a dead branch. Boots and jangling keys would always come down the corridor. Maybe they would bring with them news of a warm bed. But the boots always passed. Then you came. You didn’t walk like the others. To me, you didn’t belong in that place where the air s...
Weekly Contest #228
“You’re going to emotionally disembowel yourself like a Samurai,” my wife said, staring me down from the passenger side of our car. “I’m coming with you.” “No!” My tone caught me off guard. I sucked in a long, deep breath. The couple of feet between us was suddenly fractured with tension. I exhaled slowly. “I’m sorry. I meant…I want to do this alone, ok?” “Just remember something,” she said, rubbing my shoulder with her free hand, “You’re forgiven.” She let t...
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