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Weekly Contest #104
The Great Race As the sun sets, sunlight filters down slowly through the trees like sand in an hour glass. If the sand reaches the ground, Draakar will die. Tension is high, and drones are seen, but not by the Draakar who bob up and down in the pond like corks. It would be a comical sight if it wasn’t so frightening. The Finding have successfully surrounded the pond, and Officer Jones picks up the megaphone, “Please surrender now. Everyone in the pond will be killed in five minutes if you don’t surrender. Step onto the bank, turn, change, ...
Weekly Contest #99
The Flight Before daylight the bus left the compound. The Finding and the Team sped along. Samantha had spent a restless night, and drowsy as she was the flash of light flickering through the pines was beautiful at sunrise and made her forget her lack of sleep. They arrived at the Bayou Cane area and the Recon was off and running. No time was wasted and an organized Recon moved out. The rest of the Finding wait anxiously and finally almost an hour, that seemed like five, they run back in. Bob and Jesse run over to a few of the Recon. Time...
Weekly Contest #98
And So It Begins The school bus speeds down Hwy 104, a two lane highway about 21 miles from a small town named Cypress Point. ETA to the area on Cane Bayou is two hours. The Finding sit and unlike the children usually on a school bus, The Finding are like Monks who have taken a vow of silence. Neville is sitting in their midst, and it’s best if he’s kept in the dark about their plans. He’s drawing pictures of the Daulton domain to show Monroe and Officer Jones, trying to illustrate his remorse. Neville is allowed to talk. He can be heard ...
Weekly Contest #97
The Confession Neville Dugat wants to talk. To the team’s knowledge, he has never been at a loss for words, but this is the first time he has initiated a conversation. Samantha and the other team members are hoping for a breakthrough. It’s going on 3 o’clock, and as they’ve learned from the events of the last couple of days, they need to move fast. If you don’t, the window of opportunity as well as the actual window may not only close but be blown to hell. Samantha asks, “Has Neville been read his Miranda rights?” Monroe answers, “Yes. Wh...
Weekly Contest #95
The Attack A warm sunny day though breezy. White clouds fill the sky changing shapes by the minute. The Finding is half what it was yesterday, and while alert, are expecting nothing of any consequence to happen today. Officer Jones is on duty, and his peaceful outlook as well as those of his other officers, are blown away when Officer Jones receives a call from the Finding sentries hidden in the Southwest outskirts informing him drones are in the area. Their exact number is unknown. Immediately the call for masks is given. All search the s...
Weekly Contest #92
Secret Revealed As Pamela’s borrowed car rolls down Hwy 12 toward Slidell, she feels a sense of melancholy. In their world Doctor Randolph and she were in upper level learning together and were inseparable. Now it seems years go by without connecting. As she drives by, the forest reminds her of when they ran through the tree of pearls, their vines adorned with flowers of glowing white flowing then falling to the ground. Doctor Randolph and she would run through the low hanging flowers and a shower of light would swirl and surround them sti...
Chaos at the Compound The morning light filters through the trees like a hundred search lights. Pamela admires the sun’s search is reminded of a poem, ‘Like searchlights from Heaven the sun shone through the clouds. I hope they found a bit of beauty, truth, and love.’ Pamela shares the poem with Bob, but he finds it hard to appreciate it as one of the search lights has found his eye, and he flips down the visor to block the bright light from his left eye. Bob still manages to say, “That’s nice,” and Pamela nods at Bob, approvingly. Pamela ...
Weekly Contest #86
The Plan John Meiners, Jr. “Jesse, Jesse, look…” Jesse senses urgency and runs in from the bedroom, almost tripping on an ottoman, up to the window where Samantha stands still pointing. Alarmed, he scans the outside area for someone sneaking up, planting a bomb, or attempting to obtain a clear shot with a tranquillizer gun, or some other novel danger, he’s grown accustomed to here in Community. Anxiously Jesse asks, “What? What is it?” Samantha turns her face to him with a radiant smile and twinkle in her eye saying, “Look,… the azaleas. I ...
Is He or Isn’t He? John Meiners, Jr. Neville Dugat opens his eyes, looks at the ceiling; nothing is recognizable. His surroundings are totally unfamiliar, and in his total disorientation, the one thing he is sure of is, he is not at home. Two windows adorn his less than luxurious room, and he squints, believing he sees a wild flower, but then remembers it’s snow. The truth eludes him... vague memories of snow and spring wild flowers all swirling together. Recent snow… Louisiana is not known for a snowfall… and the cold. Swimming in the Bel...
Weekly Contest #85
Quiet Car John Meiners, Jr. “That’s the thing about this city, Bob, we need to come up with something new. We don’t want anyone to walk out saying I heard that before. I saw that already… Remember we were here two months ago and there are a lot of other places to go around Jackson Square.” In the train station people walking around and alongside of Guy, try to decide if he is talking on the phone, you know one of those ear-piece phones or whatever they’re called where the person is walking and talking, and other people think the person is...
Weekly Contest #83
The Letter By John Meiners, Jr. The lone Draakar is lifted, carried within the wave to the shallows, and emerges blue green from the clear light blue water. The remnants of waves roll peacefully on shore, and from the dark depths in the distance, white splashes appear and disappear then are gone as quickly as eyes can focus. They grow in number as the Draakar head toward the beach. Osteoans to the left and to the right applaud as they gather around the winner. More and more Draakar begin their change as they leave the water. The winner a...
Weekly Contest #81
How was your Day? By John Meiners, Jr. ‘How perfect,’ thinks Pamela as they sit sipping margaritas outside at the Riverwalk Café. Clarice points out the boat coming down the river, and Pamela waves at the tourists. Rain clouds on the horizon head their way, but their spirits remain high just like the mama duck swimming along with her eight ducklings. Cypress trees lining the Riverwalk rise high above them, reaching up to the people strolling by on the walkway above. Stefan puts his phone down… again . ‘So many phone calls,’ thinks Clarice...
Weekly Contest #80
Saved John Meiners, Jr. The next morning Clarice rises early, makes coffee, and sits down. She is deep in thought, but surprised she slept as well as she did after last night’s bombshell. Clarice’s mind races as she reconciles the reasons Stefan kept his true identity from her. They met when they were 27. If you meet and fall in love, do you tell someone something so unbelievable that it sends them reeling and running away from you? Even now it’s too difficult to believe, and part of her still refuses to accept it even after Pamela changed...
Weekly Contest #79
Secret Lives John Meiners, Jr. The next morning Pamela, Bob, and Stefan wake and sit at the table drinking coffee, having breakfast. Pamela and Bob tell Stefan about the dangers facing them all and the status of their investigation. He is shocked when told Neville Dugat is a Draakar. He thought they all had perished in the woods the day he and Bob swam away to escape the wolves. Of course Pamela never knew any Draakar were ever among their group of aliens that escaped from their dying planet to start new lives on earth. Now realizing their...
Weekly Contest #78
Finding Their Way by John Meiners, Jr. Pamela and Bob leave Community, LA around nine o'clock in the morning traveling down I-12 heading to San Antonio. It's snowing for the first time in almost ten years, and Samantha had called earlier warning them to be careful. Good news though, it wasn't snowing much past Baton Rouge. Both look forward to getting to know one another better. Pamela asks Bob about singing Blues on Jackson Square. She realizes it's a subject dear to his heart that he loves to talk about. He sings a little Sinatra to let h...
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