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Weekly Contest #367
A Pouchful of Homeland Content warning: animal injury and deaths caused by illness. The night his own shepherds came to his door with Greek guerrillas, Mehmet Ağa did not believe it at first. In the darkness, there were shouts, the thud of rifle butts against the door, and dogs suddenly growling as their chains tightened… “Open the door!” one of them shouted. He recognized the voice. It was Kostas—the man who had worked for him for years, the shepherd he trusted most at the head of his flock. Betrayal was more painful than a bullet. He took ...
Weekly Contest #348
The Taste of a Banana I didn’t know it then, but some things never leave you. I can smell a banana before anyone else does. When someone peels one somewhere, I know it without seeing it. The scent slips in through a narrow place, touches a door inside me. As if it has been waiting there for years. The door opens; I am a child again. I stand in the same place. I hide the same thing. My childhood passed in a crowded house. More than one family lived under the same roof. Voices overlapped; no one could quite hear one another. But no one was eve...
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