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Submitted to Contest #104
About eight years ago, I went to dinner with a dear friend I had known for more than 40 years. It would be the last time we would see each other and by the end of that evening I was deeply shaken. But more lasting and more unsettling than this has been the feeling of loss without his friendship. It was a sudden ending but it was also an ending that lasted for me well beyond that evening. I have worried since then at what kind of friend I am to my friends, and why a friendship can suddenly self-destruct while others can so unexpectedly bloom....
Submitted to Contest #103
PART 1: THE EMERGENCE It was a warm evening and fog rose from the Seine. It mingled with the brume if industry and elouded the gas street lights that dimly lit the Warwick streets. Adjacent, in the 4th district, was the Western State Penitentiary Prison, within which a man Joe Cole, whose hands were chained to the wall by cold steel chains and ankles bound by cuffs. Joe had brown, straight hair and long thick sideburns that taunted the corners of his mouth. He was in rags. His nose still had the bruise from the attempt to detain him when six...
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