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Weekly Contest #81
Zoetox was going to be the last in her year to graduate from the Earth Breeding Academy, where she had learned all the dating customs and intimate habits of the Earthbound human. Eventually. As the ultimate test of her abilities, she needed to head down to that alien world, find a partner, and get to work making another little hybrid that would one day take part in that planet’s hilarious and ineffectual government. She was nervous. But, hey, breeding wasn’t exactly rocket science. In fact, both species found it to be quite fun, although i...
Weekly Contest #80
Francisco never forgot the day of the rally. As a boy, he’d always enjoyed going to town; she always got him one of those ice cream sundaes with the mashed strawberries in the bottom - but his mother dragged him to the rally. Francisco had never really wanted to know what a man’s head looked like after repeated hits from a nightstick, but he’d found out that day. After, whenever he’d wanted an ice cream sundae, it was always the ones with the blueberries. He remembered his mother screaming at the men on the courthouse stairs even as the off...
Weekly Contest #79
Gene never thought he would see his engagement ring again. Nested diamond, traces of blue, with smaller gems embedded in divots along the helix band. It was just as beautiful as it had been back in July - the last time he’d seen it - before he’d had to move out. Tegan said it must have gotten dropped somewhere. But there it was, he saw the picture, it was on her hand - which was now intertwined with her lover’s. They had been so perfect together, so broken together, but so perfect. Tegan was always going on and on about her alien fingers -...
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