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Weekly Contest #366
When my father died, the only thing I asked for was his journal. My sisters wanted the fishing boat. My brother took his old watch collection. I took the battered black notebook that had spent years on his nightstand, mostly because I'd never seen him write in it. He wasn't the journaling type. He'd always said memories belonged in your head, not on paper. The first page caught me off guard. March 3Someone has been standing across the street every night this week, usually around 6 PM. Blue jacket. Baseball cap.Doesn't move. I frowned. The d...
Weekly Contest #359
I watched through the tall grass as the giants walked by. This was a normal occurrence. Every day at the same time the giants would pass our village and later that day they would come back from where they originally left. They hardly seemed to notice us, it seemed they almost always looked past us. It had been like this for thousands of years, yet there was never an alliance formed between my people and theirs. I had heard tales of a time before the giants existed, a long, long time ago. Now they acknowledged that we existed, sometimes they ...
Weekly Contest #358
(Depictions of gore and horror. Strong language is used.)Nobody believed in me... that was their first mistake.It was camping season. I know, I know, very stereotypical for a story like this. My friends didn't believe me either, thought I was pulling a prank on them. To be fair, I wouldn't believe me either if I heard the story. So here it is.May 29th, it was a Thursday. My friends and I had all planned this camping trip. I have Fridays off so I went to the spot the night before to set up. Everything went smoothly, got all the gear set up, c...
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