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Submitted to Contest #300
This was it. I’d found the summit. There was nowhere else to go. I pulled up short and stopped to listen, but I heard nothing. I dug deeper, trying to reclaim some feeling from the past. Something. Anything. A familiar tree, a sound, a secret clearing behind the grove of ash trees. Anything that would bear testimony that a boy who loved me once brought me here. I drank in the quiet for a moment, then looked around me. A rickety wooden bench hid itself just inside the heavy tree line in front of me, and I decided it would hold me. It had to....
Submitted to Contest #202
Angelique grabbed the bar mop and wiped up the excess latte she’d spilled making up her last order. Hands on hips, she sighed loudly. It had been a stressful morning already, and it was only 8:30. The front door banged shut again, and she looked up in time to see five college girls blow in, all giggles, long blonde hair, and sunglasses. They’ll be wanting some fancy foo-foo drink no one ever heard of, and they’ll change their minds a dozen times between them, then someone will have forgotten their wallet. Wait and see. Angelique knew their t...
Submitted to Contest #200
It’s Good to be in ControlAt precisely 12:08 p.m. on the Saturday before the Indy 500 Race, May, 2023:Dr. Manut Singh and her husband, Rohan, accompanied by three boys, Mustafa age 10, Rahul age 6, and Manish age 5, are seated at a booth in the restaurant near the window.Ellie MacDonald holds the door open for her sister, Fawn Ashcroft, when Ellie says, “You go ahead and put our name in. I brought something for you, but I left it in the car. I’ll be right back.”Pilot-for-hire, Solomon Aries, shakes the hand of his Brazilian client, Silas Hav...
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