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Weekly Contest #348
It started with a rhythmic clicking sound vibrating through the floor boards of the potting shed. Trent dragged the trowel he held into the earth that resembled fertilized dirt bought at a local hardware store to give the previous year’s soil a boost for the upcoming growing season; he mainly wanted to get outside for some healthy exercise to try and slim down some of the extra weight gained during the cold months of winter, which just passed only three weeks ago. But he didn’t feel the usual soft patch of earth that he was looking for. He d...
Weekly Contest #331
Detective Elana Dawson settled onto the wide windowsill of her Old Towne historic bungalow windowsill, watching the late fall’s first snowstorm of the year, pulling a heavy knitted blanket up to her chin. The residence was quiet, a small lamp emitting a dim beam of light that only glowed in a small area, the warm inside smelling faintly of the vanilla candle she’d blown out minutes ago. Outside, the city sounds—a distant beg for money, the rumble of a bus struggling to make its way up snow covered roads—seemed muffled, absorbed by the new st...
Weekly Contest #281
It only took Brian a short while to jump over the fence—or, in more adequate terms, to slide over it. The snow had fallen for three straight weeks, a little here, a little there, but the cold temperatures—the coldest of the year so far—did not allow any of the white stuff to melt, and the accumulation was now over thirteen inches. to this date, nearly eight of the twenty-one days broke a low-temperature record. This unusual cold for the early part of December kept many inside their dwellings with the thermostat on high, a few logs in th...
Weekly Contest #221
Charles Martin stood in the aisle of Halloween Center USA, adjusting items on the shelves, watching kids and their parents rushing through the entrance and file into the spooky warehouse. Each kid had to be restrained by their parents from knocking over items on the shelves. All he wanted to do was find some discount candy to hand out at dark to kids from all around his neighborhood. &...
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