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Weekly Contest #100
“Did you know once upon a time lettuce was a sacred sex symbol?” She asks this while shuffling her fork through the plate of salad in front of her. “Oh?” he says, looking with new interest at this rather plain creature across the small table from him, the one his brother insisted he ask out, the brother who had spent one whole New Year’s eve party manoeuvring the two of them together, often leaving them in uncomfortable proximity with nothing to say to each other. After that interminable evening of contrived encounters, they had both g...
Weekly Contest #58
It's oranges I miss the most. Mandarin. Navel. Blood oranges, though I never did taste one of those. I would in a heartbeat now. I think of all the times I could have eaten one but didn't. Chose an apple, if anything, but mostly ignored fruit all together. Now I think of Christmas oranges tucked into the toe of the kids' stockings. I can see the two of them unhooking those socks from the mantel, stretchy woollen tubes with their names embroidered into the band around the top, Claire's name bright red, Hal's forest green. I see them seated by...
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