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Weekly Contest #49
A woman rushes into the waiting room. She sits down, breathing heavily and taps her foot impatiently. She studies the minimalistic room. Plastic chairs fill the rim of the room. In the center, there is a table stacked with a variety of magazines and cheap plastic water bottles. There were no windows and only two doors in the room. The first door is the one Nicole had just entered through, which is locked from the outside and guarded by two men. The second door has a small window and she can see people arguing inside. There are five other pe...
Weekly Contest #48
“Norah, sweetie” a weak voice rasped, “can you come to help me?” Norah gave a quiet sound of consent and rolled out of bed. She glanced at her clock and saw that it was six in the morning. Time made little difference to her because her mother’s cancer was not limited to the barriers of night and day. Like a sleepwalker, she stumbled to her mother’s room. She had memorized the path it took to get there; she had taken it many times in the dark. She fumbled for the light switch and squinted as the light seeped into her eyes. She watched her mo...
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