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Weekly Contest #370
Disclaimer/Warning: This story deals with issues of child harm. 12:32pmThe smells wafted from the homes as Adam peddled past them. Laundry softener, garlic, engine oil from the open garage. On top of it all, the smell of impending rain from the clouds even now moving in, making the day darker. Paper skeletons and fake cobwebs, now mixing with the real deal, still clung to a few houses while the fresh-rotten smell of old pumpkin hit if you got too close to the trash cans already being put out for Monday’s morning collection.The rule was alway...
Weekly Contest #369
The old man was grey and I was afraid I was too late, that he’d already passed laying there in his hospital style bed. The living room was dusky with the blinds halfway drawn in the late afternoon sun, making the shadows darker and longer. Dust flittered in the sunbeams that touched his face revealing deep wrinkles and sunken eyes. His lips I noticed as I grew closer were impossibly thick and dry. I saw that the IV, the single medicinal tool in sight besides the bed liners and boxes of tissues—if those counted—was run dry. The urge to fix th...
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