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Submitted to Contest #268
The antagonistic conversation began at first sight Sunday morning. The guilt I felt must have been seeping from my pores filling the room with the distinct aroma of shame. She sensed it immediately and pounced on the opportunity. The long knives made an appearance and prepared to carve into my soul. Call it a woman’s intuition; call it whatever you like, but she knew. The line of questioning always started the same way, with her trying to catch me in a lie. As if that made what I did any worse. As if I were to tell the truth, the outcome of...
Submitted to Contest #267
The Man in the Alley Another morning buzzed to life and the same cast of characters stood ready to play their part on the grand stage of Third Street in Seattle between Pike and Pine. A frail dredge of a man stumbled out of an adjacent alley, squinting through a light drizzle misting the buses as they bustled their passengers up and down the avenue. He cleared the ringing in his eardrums from the blaring ambulance siren that awakened him from a restless slumber of fears and delusions. His joints ached from the cardboard covered concrete bed ...
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