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Weekly Contest #374
Laila and Erin have bigger problems than the screams coming from behind the wooden door. “It’s going to take him forever to die,” says Erin, looking down at her watch. The cool wind sweeps over Laila’s face and she shivers. “We should’ve just clobbered him.” “Like you’re some kind of expert on getting rid of someone,” Laila scoffs. “This is easy. He’s so stupid, it’s believable that he locked himself inside a cabin.” “What if the snow melts early?” Erin raises an eyebrow. “We can’t leave until— I have to go to work.” “You work at a library f...
Weekly Contest #264
“That’s Clarissa. She likes to sew,” says the woman Alice assumes is a nurse showing her around. She wears pale yellow scrubs as she leads her through the day room. The woman she gestured to is stabbing at a piece of fabric with a plastic needle. “We give her blunt plastic ones.” “And that’s safe?” Alice can’t help but ask. She’s still in her everyday clothes, but suspects she’ll be asked to change into the gown the woman with the needle is wearing. The woman shrugs. The name tag pinned to her shirt reads, “Sophia,” in a scribbled font. “It ...
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