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Weekly Contest #23
Grayness. My entire vision is immersed in a pulsing gray vortex. A thunderous cacophony resounds in my head as I flail around. Gradually my sight focuses, and a landscape sprawls out around me. First comes an evening sky, enshrouded by a ponderous layer of clouds. Snow is falling onto the ground, disgorged by the sky as bloated projectiles that splatter over everything in the vicinity. I hold out my hand and catch a few, but I feel no chill despite the brumal winds and vision obscuring snowfall. Looking at my hand, I notice that the sn...
Weekly Contest #21
The Baroque Enigma opened ninety-nine years and three hundred sixty four days ago, but it appears even older. The ridiculously ornate hotel presents a living anachronism among the taller, sleeker rectangles lining either side of the highway. Across the street, a sign announces that an onyx and marble monolith of a hotel building will hold its grand opening tomorrow. Colorful strands of lights and rings of artificial pine branches scintillate in the frosted night. I leave my car in the eroding parking lot and pause at the front doors, w...
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