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Weekly Contest #119
sensitive content: reference to war and escapePeople Who May Have Listened“Oh, hello…! How nice to see you! How are you doing, my dear?”Poor you, you were caught right in front of your doorstep! Mrs Wierszinski, petite, grey-haired and in tweed, was speeding down the stairs, faster than you might have expected. It was so typical, wasn ´ t it? In her left hand she was holding her plastic bag with old toast for the ducks, also just as always; she had shown you they ´ d always get those bits that were too mouldy to be eaten. You had scolded her...
Weekly Contest #101
Mother of PearlPROLOGUE Deep down in the ocean where lights and darkness play endlessly on corals, sand and stones, there once was a sea shell, living in a forest of seaweed. One might have thought it was like all those others that were living beside it in the currents: they were all covered with crusts of algae and sea pox, breathing sea water in and out until they would die one day and be washed out and forgotten, but life follows its own paths even down in the sea and so it turned out things were to be differe...
Weekly Contest #95
Red Spots Sarah sat at her desk, pressing her mobile phone to her ear. “I do not have anything to lay down on if I ´ m tired,” she complained, “I only use my bed at night; as soon as I ´ ve got up in the morning I leave my clothes in the bedroom and have a shower. During the day I do not go there.” “I understand,” answered the calming voice at the other end. “The only thing I use at least to sit on is this wooden chair. I ´ m using it just now to have something in front of my desk where I do my paperwork.” It was true and she hated it, fo...
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