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Weekly Contest #220
A THREAD OF HOPE American Civil War - Adamsville, Tennessee April 1862 I sat on the wooden boards of the dusty attic floor gazing down in stupefaction at the open journal on my lap. Above me the fading light from the small window lit up a stream of dust motes but I breathed them in without noticing. The inside cover had the name Charlotte Miller, my Grandma’s name, written in faded black ink, the flowing cursive letters sloping strongly to the right. I had wandered up here hours ago having nothing else better to do while the Doctor was ten...
Weekly Contest #211
THE SILVER TIN BOX Near Bucharest, Romania 1940 The murky surface of the water suddenly broke into small shimmering ripples of light. The boy’s eyes shot to the movement and he watched, mesmerized, as two tiny black eyes lifted up out of the cloudy depths and gazed unwaveringly at him. He was lying on his stomach at the edge of the pond, arms crossed under his chin and his chest supporting his weight. Unmindful of the wet mud that was slowly soaking it’s cold tentacles into the front of his faded jacket he knew that his mom would scold h...
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