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Submitted to Contest #280
Balancing a plate of cookies with one hand, I knocked on the heavy wooden door with the other. For a long moment, silence reigned, broken only by the faint shuffling of feet from the apartment next to the Millers. Thinking the young woman I’d only seen in passing might not be home, I sighed in disappointment and turned to leave.The other families in the complex had mentioned that she was a beautiful young woman, often seen only in the early mornings or late afternoons. She barely had conversations, even with the people working at the conveni...
Submitted to Contest #277
Thick snowflakes fell onto my hand as I stretched my arm out of the window. I shuddered and bit my lip in a silent scream as the freezing breeze seemed to creep under my skin and grace my bones. I was so close I could feel it. Just a little more, and I would feel that spark in my fingertips that I longed for. I had been close to feeling it last Saturday when the snow layers had been even thicker than they were now. In a desperate attempt to feel that flame, I had stood up and almost bent outward, reaching for the full moon that taunted me i...
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