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Jon Kaplan

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The Hunger

Weekly Contest #376

CW: Substance abuse, blood and gore, and violence Despite my roiling stomach, all I could think about was food. I blinked open gooey eyes and fought against the nausea from a stabbing headache. My tongue was glued to the roof of my mouth, and I knew my breath would wilt flowers. Without moving my head (I wasn’t ready to chance that yet), I gazed around the room. Empty beer bottles and overflowing ashtrays littered the coffee table next to the couch that had served as my bed. I recognized my surroundings as Ernie’s living room. Fragments of ...

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Road Trip

Weekly Contest #300

Jenny126 beamed at the message on the data screen built into her sleeve. After living her whole life on the station, she had been picked for a trip to Terra! Humans had been gone from Terra for a long time, but reconnaissance missions deemed it was now safe to visit. She was already starting to fantasize about the trip. It was going to be so exciting to visit some place new and exotic. She had been reading about Terra since she was a little girl. The lottery gave out only a few slots every year and she had been trying for the past two, sinc...

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The Longest Winter

Weekly Contest #282

Sunvik thought back to the day the darkness started. For years, he and his fellow villagers had been tracking the path of the sun. They knew its pattern. Knew when it would be at the highest point in the sky, giving them the longest day. They made marks in the stone at various key points in the year. This was their calendar. They used these marks to know when to plant, when to harvest and when they needed to be ready for the cold dark of winter. Sunvik moved his head from side to side, taking in his surroundings in the cave. His wife and chi...

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Caretakers

Weekly Contest #220

I didn’t know it at the time, but Grandma Stevens was getting me ready to take on a new role. I’m still not sure why it was me and not one of my siblings, her other grandchildren or her own children. I suppose that, in time, I may learn why. After all, there are many things that haven’t yet been revealed to me. I’m learning to be okay with that. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I loved going to my grandparents house. It was a magical place, especially when we were all little kids. I probably started going when I was a baby, but I started ha...

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The Tunnel

Danny tamped down his nervous energy. He hadn’t thought of much else but the tunnel since he first learned about it. Now he and Todd were making their way through the quiet streets of the small town towards the eastern entrance. They both wore backpacks and had on rugged shoes they could find. Sweatshirt hoods covered their heads partly to ward off the early fall chill in the air and partly to hide their faces from any probing cameras should everything go south. They had decided to start on the eastern end and go west. If the train traffic ...

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Party Girl

Weekly Contest #82

Julie wondered at the chaos around her in the school cafeteria. It was difficult to pick out conversations from the overall buzz. Trays clattered, videos and music played from phones. Knots of students laughed and chatted. The sensory overload was intimidating. Add to the noise the harsh overhead fluorescent lights, clothing of every color in the rainbow, the hideous bright blue and yellow chairs. The smell of fried food, tomato sauce, and the sickly sweet of today’s dessert wafting out from the kitchen. This mixed with hundreds of different...

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