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Weekly Contest #336
This is a story written entirely with dialogue. Hey Brian, you wanna go get a beer after work tonight? I can’t stand to be at home right now.Sure. What time do you think you’ll be done with this project for the day? You should be close to finished by now, you’ve been working on it for three weeks.I don’t know. I could probably sit here for the next four days straight and not get it done. My brain is just not focusing anymore. I am not sure I want to keep doing this. It’s kinda killing me.Well - what would you want to do if you left h...
Weekly Contest #335
The first time Mara noticed him, he was standing across the street from her apartment building, pretending to check his phone.It was early October, the kind of morning where fog clung to the pavement like a held breath. Mara had paused on the steps, fumbling with her keys, when she felt it—that subtle pressure between her shoulder blades, the unmistakable sensation of being watched. She looked up.The man wore a dark jacket and a knit cap pulled low. He stood beside a parking meter, head bent, thumb scrolling. Nothing about him was remarkabl...
Weekly Contest #333
The dark, cold rain clouds rolled over the city, blocking the sun from reaching the earth. It was a typical day in Paris, the rain just starting to fall gently from the sky. Luc Dubois had just found a new flat in the downtown center, close to the restaurant. He wanted to live in the city center, not only because that is where all the action was, it was also so he could walk to work.Luc was fresh out of Le Cordon Bleu, where he was a top graduate in his class. Most of his colleagues called him, “Le Zeune Prodige,” the wiz kid. To Luc, c...
Weekly Contest #332
It was starting to get dark, the air still and cold. It has been a few days since he visited the shelter, but it was time. It was much too cold to stay outside in the park tonight. The streets were lit dimly with the glow of the street lights, just enough to make his way down the sidewalk.He stopped at the elevated stairs of the shelter, the words Hamilton County Shelter across the top of the doorway. He pulled the door open to feel the warm air of the room, the smell of smoke and cheap wine. An attractive young woman stopped him at the...
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