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Submitted to Contest #332
Hannah Martin had risen early to the sound of her clock radio alarm going off. Spring had been wet and wild, and tornadoes had torn through the part of the country known as tornado alley, wreaking havoc and unleashing their fury. With the torrential rain that battered the trees and the funnel clouds that clipped many more, the sad area of the Ohio River Valley had suffered. With the arrival of summer, the rivers went from sponge-soaking waterways spilling over their banks to a horrible, humid drought. The trees she knew were stressed, and sh...
Submitted to Contest #329
“Why did it have to be a dark and stormy night?” Max grumbled as she noticed a bolt of lightning streak across the black, cloud-covered sky, followed by a low rumble of thunder that soon punctuated the firebolt. She waited. Sure enough, the wind howled out of the north. Being a single-manned patrol unit, she half-listened to the chatter from dispatch on her radio. Usually, when the wind blew, it meant that countless alarms would be going off, and all units would be tied up investigating the reports and making rounds on buildings that were o...
Submitted to Contest #295
The year was 1965, and the summer was poised to be a scorcher. The nightly national news relentlessly covered the Vietnam conflict, which had been ongoing for some time. Katie Ann Clark was excited to be out of school for the summer and eagerly anticipated her transition from tween to teen. Katie Ann was quite unique for such a tender age. From when she was five, she had known things before they happened, often speaking of voices that told her things about people she had never met. Her parents chalked it up to an active imagination and her...
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