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Weekly Contest #97
When I was in high school I literally lived up the street from my boyfriend. He had a treehouse in his backyard and if you climbed around the largest branch you could also sneak into the house from the second floor. It’s probably why I have bad knees. So one evening when I woke up to something hitting my own window, I was startled to say the least. First of all, my room was in the attic of my house. Second, there were no hearty trees near the windows of my house, because my dad said he didn’t like the way they cluttered the yard and had them...
Weekly Contest #95
You stand before a hallway wedged between two doors. Another open hallway stands behind you. Do you go: left, right, forward, back? Left You decide to turn left. There is an empty hall with no windows and no doors. The floor is grass—real grass, with occasional bald patches of soil. The soil is damp and the air smells fresh. Daisies and petrichor and a gentle breeze on your cheeks. You reach the end of the hall, but there's nothing else. You turn back and return to where you began. The idea of nature inside a place like this, that the room...
Weekly Contest #9
We sneak into abandoned places all the time. Well, Samantha and I do. Melissa hates when we do it, and she doesn’t even know we sneak in with backpacks full of beer. We’ve climbed the old water tower and we’ve left tags so many places…when we get back we always put a gold star on our old paper map of the town and now it’s mostly covered in this cloud of sparkly gold stickers like you’d get for good behavior in school, but this is like an anti-good behavior chart instead.Out of all of us, Melissa is the most “what it says on the tin”, I guess...
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