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Heidi E

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Haptic Tinnitus

‘Click, click, clickity, click-click.’ The writer typed away at the keyboard, editing the same story she had been working on for months. The story wasn’t going the way she wanted, the characters were misbehaving, and that ever-elusive perfect opening sentence was still a mile away. She sighed and leaned back in her chair.“Maybe it’s time to shelf this one too…”Closing the document, she turned off the computer for the night and got ready for bed. She crawled under the covers and ruminated on the story again, wondering what she was doing wrong...

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Crashing

Weekly Contest #371

The street lamp flickered as Milo walked under it, the wiring on its last threads. He passed dark building after dark building, before his lowered gaze caught the reflection of the laundromat sign in the puddles of rain water pooling in the cracked and overgrown sidewalk. Opening the door, the scent of mildew and dryer sheets wrestled for their place in his nose. As he set the big bag of laundry down on the floor in front of a washer, a ping from the phone in his pocket drew his attention. [Look at this huge stuffed animal Anne has! I’m so j...

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