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Weekly Contest #378
Sam awoke in the dark. She wasn’t sure what had awakened her; the room was silent. A soft wind rustled the leaves outside, making a papery chatter that set her nerves on edge. But that wasn’t what dragged her from the depths of sleep. She reached over to hold Jason, then realized with a start that he wasn’t in bed. There was a piece of paper laying on his side of the bed. “In the outhouse,” it read. Sam breathed a small sigh of relief. Perhaps Jason leaving had woken her. They had fled Detroit to a cabin in northern Michigan for their honeym...
Weekly Contest #354
The day the world ended was the day that Billy Candor’s life changed for the better. Though he was only ten, Billy knew he had a tough life. When he was seven, his father had died unexpectedly and mysteriously. He wasn’t sure how his father died, his mother never told him, so he figured it must have been bad indeed. Now, he was left alone with his sickly mother. That made him The Man Of The House, she told him, and it was the job of The Man Of The House to provide for the household. His mother wasn’t so ignorant as to make him find actual em...
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