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Submitted to Contest #332
The air hums with summer heat, sounds muted by a blanket of mid-day lassitude. Will Barlow can hear the stream if he listens for it; also the occasional buzz of a cicada and the call of a whipbird in the rainforest. “Picture a tranquil scene from nature,” the course leader told them. “This is your quiet place, where you go to relax.” He led them through a process of relaxing their muscles and their minds. “Now place yourself in your scene,” he said eventually. “Feel the forces of nature …” And in his mind Will is there. He feels the weight ...
Submitted to Contest #329
CW: Physical violence, racism, apartheid BLACK AND WHITE South Africa 1975It's dark. Not inky-black, you understand. Just city-dark; the darkness of stone-shattered streetlights.I can still see the road, stretching wet and away; defined by glimmers of reflection. Pavements are lost; the bins and the garbage; the things that lurk on the fringes; the soft splash of foot in puddle.I'm invisible where I sit on the kerb, damp working its cold way through my body. From beanie to sneakers, I'm enveloped in pigment. God made me this way, or so I'm t...
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