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Weekly Contest #49
“Write a story about a person waiting for an answer to a question.” When will the right time come? I fidget with the pen in my left hand, the end practically bitten off from all the times I’ve nervously nibbled on the side. I can feel the blood pulse through my right as I lay it perfectly still against the desk, breaking off from my major veins and splitting off like lightning through my fingertips. My throat runs dry and someone’s up their gutting themselves but I can’t hear them over the thrumming beginning to grow as I realize I’ll...
Weekly Contest #47
“Just say it” You silently reminded yourself. You knew you’d regret it if you didn’t. The highway is bleary through your windburnt eyes. The windows are down and it sounds like a helicopter is landing on the roof of this old Ford Escape but you’re not putting them down, not now. She’s been unconscious in the back seat for ten minutes now, and last time you checked her pulse was faint and flowing and a stagnant pace, but you were not going to lose her, not today. Saint Luke’s was right around the bend and through a few tunnels, she’d l...
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