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Weekly Contest #342
The first letter of the month arrived with a dull thud against the wool runner, a heavy intrusion upon the solemn burgeoning spring afternoon. The parchment was brittle—an amber page that felt precariously fragile beneath her touch—and it bore the tactile residue of the front: streaks of soot and calcified grime that smeared charcoal across her rosy skin. Sophie Johnson moved with an invigorating clip-clop of her heels, the sound echoing off the polished floorboards before she sank into the velvet embrace of the refurbished armchair. It was...
Weekly Contest #158
Running, her hand over her disheveled, goldy locks, eyes sunken deep with tears flowing down her cheeks like waterworks. Her sapphire eyes locked onto a scrawny boy whose body was dismembered to their own. Blood as red as a fresh apple that has just been grown and plucked, seeps from every crevice slowly being pulled into a drain that was conveniently placed underneath the body of Burton Demain.With a sudden jerk, she pulls the boy towards herself and weeps quietly into his chest as the hot tears run down her cheek. Her heart sobbed with fee...
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