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Weekly Contest #341
I vowed to myself that I would never return to this rotten place. To me, it still reeks of death and putrefaction, though today I also discern the smell of pine trees, old grass, and white flowers. I have brought my old sidearm with me, an almost antique officer’s revolver they gave me at the graduation ceremony in the academy; a memento I was never quite able to leave behind. Then, a handshake, a pat on the back, straight into uniform, rifle in hand, voilà, welcome to the front. How long ago was that?Now, I am back here, walking where the t...
Weekly Contest #340
I am waking up. The steel slab they have laid me on hurts my back. My limbs are spread out and bound to an apparatus I have never seen before. Where am I? Am I in one of their sky leviathans? I try to move, but anything more than a slight shift to the left or right is cut short by my restraints. The cuffs bite deep into my flesh, chafing the skin raw until blood pours out onto the slab.I finally manage to shift enough to take in my surroundings. Cold, metal walls, lined with more slabs where others of my kin lie dead or dying. The light from...
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