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Weekly Contest #41
APRIL 1,625 words The terrifying visions were particularly vivid at night. I didn’t even remember the nightmares the next morning; someone conjectured that my brain was protecting me from reliving the pain and I accepted the explanation. I wanted to obliterate the memories of that morning. But the aching was there even during the day. Truthfully, traces still linger all these years later. Now it reassures me that he was real, he lived his life, and he died at peace with the world. The days before my son died are a blur of robot-like activit...
Weekly Contest #38
Judy Goldwyn Judy.goldwyn@gmail.com 203-209-8098 What's For Dinner? Bradley looked at his watch for the fifth time. It was 2:12, exactly 42 minutes had gone by since he first checked. “Keep your eyes off the watch and concentrate,” Bradley often spoke to himself, especially since the quarantine started. Nobody else was there to listen, anyway. At least no other human. The computer screen was blank except for the title, A Layman’s View of the Psychological Effects of Quarantine. He knew he was lucky to get this job, and he didn’t want to mes...
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