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Weekly Contest #70
The sting of the morning sun was insufferable, so I rolled over to the opposite side of mattress, which proved to be the wrong choice. A chunky, wet puddle of an undetermined substance pooled into the middle of my bed. “What the hell?” I jumped, disgusted and irritated. I didn’t know if this was my doing, or someone else’s. “Did I have a party last night?” I mutter to myself, but my inner-monologue and I both know the answer. I trudged into the bathroom down the hall of my tiny studio apartment, about a block away from campus, and I look...
Weekly Contest #67
The salty breeze of the Baltic Sea greeted me coldly as I climbed from the hatch and onto the main deck. The wind blew brilliantly, gripping the masts with its mighty hands and rushing our ship along with the current. Captain Lukan stood firm, hands on his hips, and gazing upon the sea before him. He dressed in Germany’s colors; our homeland. He was a prideful man, dressing our ship in German flags, and singing folk songs when nights grew dim and dreary. Lukan was different from the typical pirate captain, in the way that he believed in fam...
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