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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 a...
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 the words hang in the stale air of the car for a few seconds. “And, another thing, ...
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