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Weekly Contest #367
For two years, my sister Agnes has promised my inheritance is coming "soon." She is the executor; I am the phantom haunting her waiting room. When my granddaughters, Cailey and Chrissy, look up from their coloring books and ask, "Can we see your house, Grandma?" I swallow the truth."One day," I tell them, forcing a smile.On the drive home, the highway blurs through my tears, forcing me to pull over before I lose the road entirely. My granddaughters are old enough now to ask where I live, and when they can sleep over. I tell them the same lie...
Weekly Contest #288
My feet are on fire as I run barefoot past cattails in meadows, on dusty paths alongside the river, through patches of dense pines. I only stop to scan the horizon. Pa pulls on the reins of his horse and shouts, “Whoa!” when he spots me, my hand shielding my eyes, as I squint into the golden sun of late summer and call her name. I hear the gurgle in his throat, and moments later, his spit lands on an unsuspecting daisy, phlegm foaming, oozing down the petals. I feel sorry for the little wildflower. The slime is disgusting—almost as disgustin...
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