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Weekly Contest #171
I couldn’t remember when or how I had gotten into the car and backed out of the driveway, but here I was now, speeding down the highway, the windows down blowing away any tears that escaped my eyes. Exit after exit flashed by, but I continued north. I didn’t know where I was going, there was no one north to go to, but I kept pushing my car straight ahead. The bright lights from passing cars illuminated the pain that must’ve been on my blotchy face. I only had time to gather one bag of my possessions before I raced out of that godforsaken hom...
Weekly Contest #169
(Contains gore and violence) The lightning flashed through the windows, mimicking the flickers of the small flames inside the many pumpkin faces that lined the granite counter. It seemed to match a rhythm all its own, a song I could never understand. I hummed a tune, hoping to follow along with the lightning and candles all around me. Thunderclaps followed the bright light, cutting through the darkened house. Creaks and groans from the wind and the house fell into the song of the fire, lightning and thunder. Whispers of their spirits flitt...
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