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Submitted to Contest #219
It all started one night around eight months in. I’d been doing the standard routine, five nights a week, sometimes six, starting always at ten pm and out by eight the next morning. I liked it, for the most part. It was easy work. Before that I’d always been on my feet, stacking shelves or serving drinks. With this I had my chair, my throne. I could come in, shake hands with the guy who’d done the afternoon shift and then settle in, my dinner in the little fridge in the office space, a book or a crossword or whatever to keep me entertained i...
Submitted to Contest #218
Acrid. Charred. Auburn, almost. It penetrated the nostrils with force, malice even, thin, spindly tendrils of it reaching in thorny curls up and inwards, lining everything it touched with a layer of sooty smog, marking its ever-expanding territory. The smoke had been the first sign that something was wrong, this creeping doom silently traversing the tranquil space like some expanding wraith, some malevolent cloud of ill intent, the secrecy of its march undone only by the fullness of the scent. If it hadn’t been for the smell, well…who could ...
Submitted to Contest #194
There are many things I’m sure I’ll never understand in my life. I studied photography, so shutter speeds, planometric composition, not leaving your phone face up in a darkroom so that when it rings and lights up like a Christmas Tree because you always have it on too bright a setting for some reason and it therefore ruins whatever exposed photographic paper you happen to have lying in its vicinity which is really expensive nowadays because it’s a sort of dying art form and there aren’t many retailers around for dying art forms…these things ...
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