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Submitted to Contest #58
The girl is alone, sitting in a black leather chair and staring at her gloved hands, tips still singed with oil. She should have finished fixing the navigation systems, but her fingers ache. Four minutes pass before she glances up at the flashing lights. Her hair is choppy, ragged from neglect. What had been so important? The lights don’t disappear all at once, instead each darkening one after another. They begin at the end of the hall, the black creeping towards her at a trodden pace. She blinks. The hall flashes red. She checks her watch....
Submitted to Contest #53
The girl sat on her porch steps, watching the juice of her red popsicle dribble down the wooden stick and along the creases of her fingers, across the rough skin of her palm and the smooth skin of her wrist. It was sticky and sweet, but tasted just fine when she licked it up. On the other side of the street, lounging on white wood much like that which laid beneath her feet, a small brown dog stared at her with judging eyes. He’d sat there every day this summer, floppy ears tilted and mangy fur springing all over his body like someone had plu...
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