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Weekly Contest #61
Smell is the strongest sense. The olfactory bulb sits right on the brain and scents trigger emotions, thoughts, memories, and associations that our conscious mind barely registers. Science still isn’t sure how the chemicals we inhale cross the neurological barrier to the brain, but the effect is profound. Profoundly disturbing in this case. All I could smell was death. I’d grown up around that smell. The musky, pissy aroma of animal pelts and the sweet, rotting smell of offal....
Weekly Contest #49
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