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Submitted to Contest #334
It’s cold, dark, and wet with snow covering every surface.“Where is she.” I flick the cigarette away, sighing out acrid smoke. Thirty years I’ve watched her, waited for her, protected her. It was tiresome. I even got hit by a car once just because she’d been busy keeping her jogging rhythm and ran out into the street.She didn’t know. Of course. When she saw me, it was not my face she saw, just a random stranger. I always thought it was better that way, that she didn’t know she was protected. At least, until last week.I shivered. Immortal lif...
Submitted to Contest #224
“I can’t sleep,” throwing the blanket off in a huff and staring at the ceiling, Clara whispers into the darkness, “you’ve got to be kidding me.” She reaches blindly for her phone that she’d left on the floor beside the thin mattress. Squinting at the sudden glare, she groans at the time, “Shit, 2:25 and I have so much to do in the morning and instead of sleeping I’m laying here…talking to myself apparently.” Clara swings her legs around and sits, resting her head on her bony knees she scrubs her hands through short messy hair. She stops to ...
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