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Daniel Paul

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Noam Lockwood

Weekly Contest #61

My wife, Emmah, always said I have an overactive imagination, that it was one of the essential parts of me, something that made me—me. I don’t know, I am beginning to see her point. Last week, we had a debate about who had gone to bed last. I claimed to have left her in the sitting room when she had decided the new show on channel 19 was all she felt like seeing that night but she had a totally different opinion of it. In fact, she said she had left for bed when I refused to let the T.V. rest on a single channel. When she said this...

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Don't Breathe

Weekly Contest #52

“I saw him today.”“Who?”“Flake.” My eyes stung from the tears clinging to it. There was no doubt they were red already and swollen from the loss of sleep in the past few days. I pressed my lips together, taking time to search the words lost somewhere deep inside me. “He was standing there, just watching me, I could feel his eyes on me like—like he was there. Like he was standing right there.” I stared at him, curious about his answers. I knew how I sounded and the dread of believing I might actually be —crazy—caused my pale li...

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Mystery Friend

Weekly Contest #47

You live your life knowing you are worthless. You wake up another morning, wondering why you still bother and why the world is yet to take you up into its sleeves and act as nothing happened. Maybe it doesn't even care enough to take you.  You feel the sting in your heart, the feeling of abandonment. The inevitable rejection you constantly face all through your life even though you are twenty-five now.  You don't bother to try, or at least, you think you don't, but your birthday is getting closer again and like every other ye...

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