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Weekly Contest #356
The sun rose over a small neighborhood in Elaine, Arkansas. Clivious Johnson had laid out his finest suit—the one that had survived the fire. The wool was stiff with smoke, the lining darkened where blood had once soaked through and dried. He buttoned it slowly, smoothing the lapels as if the fabric still obeyed him. At the mirror, he lifted a straight razor to what remained of his face. The right side had been taken by a shotgun blast; the skin there was a pale ruin of scar. Still, he drew the blade carefully across his brown skin, scraping...
Weekly Contest #355
Contains racist language, police abuse, and corrupt law enforcement Every other month, Sergeant Cross and Lieutenant Guy held a “mandatory diversity” meeting at Guy’s property outside El Paso, Texas. Neither man ever explained the nature of these meetings to their wives. They sat on opposite ends of a leather couch, a six-pack of Coors Light between them, rotating the same three films: Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and BlacKkKlansman. Guy was convinced this was better than writing Cross up, and would actually convert him from his bigotry. E...
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