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Submitted to Contest #331
Their relationship held the same warmth as the ice flow that now confronted the ship. A genuine dislike had ignited upon their first meeting, and both men had worked tirelessly over the last several months in cultivating it. Like a magnificent and crafted sculpture, together, they were proud of what their chisels had accomplished, and a joined debate could be manifested that their mutual disdain was really the only thing they agreed upon. The HMS Caledonia was now approaching the Bellot Strait after spending the previous 14-hours locked in a...
Submitted to Contest #329
Normand Gaultier was indifferent to opinion, and as such, lacked a measure of inner perspective that guides the rest of humanity through the turbulent seas of existence. This lack of self-awareness had been nurtured throughout the decades culminating in a hard bitterness to all things. Especially on this rather glacial night as he peered out the window of the Quick Stop service station and convenience store off the desolate portion of converging twins I94 and State 94 on the fringes of Valley City, SD.As he watched a light snow fall through ...
Submitted to Contest #328
Mature.As he drove Stan Ritter’s eyes were transfixed on the snaking tarred road while his mind was attempting to solve the riddle of how he had gotten himself into this? He was now on that most vapid stretch of roads – State Route 40A – that takes the traveler north from Tupper Springs to the adjacent community of Salmon Creek – cutting through the forested areas that is the northern thatch of the state before depositing them at the Canadian border. His hands on the wheel negotiated each bend, each hill, every hairpin turn, with precision. ...
Submitted to Contest #327
Halifax watched closely from his usual third-shelf perch between the jars of toad’s oil and dried wolfsbane. Below him he felt she was really in a fit today – there seemed to be an unusual fervor in his Companion’s gestures as she darted around the cauldron. Her actions both sharp and decisive that usually are instigated by significant fissures of urgency. Already the steam from the bubbling mixture of teal and azure sea below was stretching itself high enough to reach his observation point and, unfortunately to Halifax’s dismay, the pungent...
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