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Submitted to Contest #299
I had never gotten my car towed before. Parking tickets? Plenty. Dozens. The city government seemed to move at a snail’s pace when it came to every other damn thing, but when it came to parking tickets they moved with the efficiency of an ant colony. I also rarely went out for a drink after work. After every shift my coworkers all flocked to this shitty dive nearby called Bob’s so they could spend their cash tips on well liquor and domestics. I liked my coworkers well enough, didn’t have a problem with them, but the job maxed out my social ...
Submitted to Contest #298
A wall of faces stared out at me from their eyeless sockets. There must have been at least a hundred of them, this army of visages, each one unique. Some missing a nose, even the entire lower half, a cursed few with mouths wrenched open in a permanent scream. They horrified me, and I instinctually lifted my hand to my own face, to the cavity there, the twisted roadmap of scars and knotted flesh. “Good boy, you’re right on time.” The sculptor emerged from the back room, holding two cups of steaming black tea, one of which she pressed into my...
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