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Submitted to Contest #51
Umi gazed into the wall. The group of ants trailed after their implicit leader in a single pile, forming a sharp zigzag sometimes a wiggly line, they were so tiny. Umi wondered if their tiny feet dirtied their floors back in their homes, the wall was clean but dirt is always in every organism, nature is so natural, or maybe they also sweep and clean, like us. She cannot remember learning anything from the episode last night. The National Geographic channel was always on. No one else in the house bothered to switch channels. Of course no one ...
Submitted to Contest #49
Mama Agneta sits outside on the threshold of her house, the train of her old fading Dera flaps against the ground between her feet. It was a gift from her sister who is married to a man from the far Coast of Kenya, she misses her and is sad, although her sister doesn’t have a much better life, it wouldn’t hurt to have an experience of life in another town. She rests her head on her palm, the folds on her forehead form significantly and little beads of shiny sweat gather under the furrows. The short rusty iron sheets do not cast any sha...
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