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Weekly Contest #363
My beautiful Evangeline came marching through the cypress trees with a glass jar. It was May. Hundreds of irises bloomed along the swamp. They were violet as the sky and growing strong in the unrelenting heat. Most of us were resting on their petals. I watched the others laze throughout the arching chordgrass, their lanterns glowing with less mirth than when the early risers began the holiday in April. Her arrival pushed the tired flyers on a current toward the swamp like shy dancers put on the spot. But we were revived by her presence and s...
Weekly Contest #351
The wall stared without question or expectation.There were scars hidden beneath its caked layers of paint, every one a silenced story consumed by the beige expanse. It stood despite them. Too empty to ponder the whys, too mute to claim identity, and too rooted in place to succeed with any other obligation than to simply be.Eryn envied its sober existence. Her only grace in the world was keeping it company. Life was a ravenous, hateful creature. Without the wall she was prey to its rampant ideas hurling her feelings from small joys to monstro...
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