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Weekly Contest #42
My dad has a complicated relationship to art. I found a 3 x 5’ canvas in the shed, behind the broken tiller, dirt dauber nests in the corners of the wooden frame. The painting was abstract, a riotous, surrealist piece in muted pastels of my doodles. I knew it was my dad’s work because they were the same doodles he sketched on scratch paper when he was on the phone, the same curlicue faces with big eyes and whimsical smiles that he drew during church on the bulletins. Loops and tunnels and twisting eels of color all pulsing across the c...
Weekly Contest #38
The BuckiesAttack Throughout the sultry Sunday afternoon and into the dusky evening, the neighbors roll their garbage cans down their sloping driveways. Christy is always first. Her trashcan a perfect twelve inches from the curb. Three bags of branches spaced precisely from the can. Perfection. A target. They’re already plotting. It’s sometime past midnight before I startle awake. “Shit. Trash day.” I’m up and out of bed, feet in slides, dragging the can behind me before my eyes are fully open. I glance across the st...
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