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Submitted to Contest #124
We used to wake up on hot summer days skin sticky, mouth parched, hair tousled with sleep. We would splash water over our dresses and head down the stairs holding our wet clothes tight against our thighs. Sometimes our mothers would catch us sneaking out and hand us the household’s dirty laundry, a reminder to not get too cute about our lives. We were down at the beach playing around, the cleaned laundry draped over branches and flapping in the wind, when a naked man emerged from behind a bush. Girls, girls, he called out to us. My frie...
Submitted to Contest #119
Listen. I’m going to tell you a story. There once was an old man who lived by himself in a dark forest. He hated water in large quantities and so lived in a place where the only water came from shallow pans scattered around his property. Every morning he walked to the poplar tree and carried the blue tin bowl inside. After making a weak rust colored tea, he would splash the remaining water over his head and sprinkle a little bit over his armpits. At night, he walked to the spruce tree and carried the yellow plastic bowl inside. For f...
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