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Weekly Contest #317
Charlie's heavy eyelids reluctantly pushed against his slumber exposing his eyes to a burning, hazy glow cloaked in shadows. His chest pushed against the cocoon of blankets that swaddled him, rising against the heavy air, before collapsing in tepid protest. As perfunctory blinks cleared his cornea a searing question came into focus. Are you still watching? The illumination box on the wall was little more than shadow play and waves of sound that never reached shore. Although Charlie never paid much attention to the puppets on the wall his o...
Weekly Contest #315
He was sitting in the dark staring at a blinking cursor on a screen. It was far too late, or early, at this point for falling asleep. Then sun would be rising soon though the darkness that prevailed in that moment suggested otherwise. By the light of the screen he could see that which was in reach. The keyboard with which he’d hoped to translate his thoughts to words lay idle in front of him. It’s sidekick the mouse waited at the ready to the right. Next to it, a little further to the right, a coffee mug sat empty for the second time since h...
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