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Weekly Contest #350
3 PROSE PIECES (2238wds) 1. THE CESSPOOL If you live in a suburban area without sewers you know how precarious the system of disposing human waste can be. We become the cesspool Gestapo. There are signs in black marker in all the bathrooms: PLEASE DO NOT DEPOSIT PAPER TOWELS, TISSUES, TAMPONS, GUM WRAPPERS or anything other than one ply toilet tissue. When the cesspool in ou...
Weekly Contest #196
1240wds TWINS Walking on legs like a zombie, eyes clouded with the film of tears, throat with a large pit stuck inside causing me to swallow over and over, I moved slowly toward the casket shrouded in white gauze...
Weekly Contest #146
1102wds TWINS Walking on legs like a zombie, eyes clouded with the film of tears, throat with a large pit stuck inside causing me to swallow over and over, I moved slowly toward the casket shrouded in white gauze...
Weekly Contest #123
MASKING UP I opened my eyes from what seemed a deep sleep. Strangely, I was wearing, as I had been for almost two years, a Covid mask. Sometimes it seemed like an appendage, not just a covering, but a part of my face. But since I lived alone and when not in...
wds.1222 WHAT I COULDN’T SWALLOW Today’s the day I change. After thirty years of having this irrational, debilitating affliction, I decided, and with the help of many years of therapy, to grab it by its throat and choke it out of me. Funny, I should use that wordage since that was the crux of it—a significantly strong fear of swallowing and choking which followed me through all my years. It wa...
Weekly Contest #103
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