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Submitted to Contest #266
The smell of coffee beans, nestled into his mustache. Click-clack, click-clack, click-click-click-click. The, all-too-familiar, sound of the backspace key being pressed repeatedly. The early morning gray, the midnight black. Heavy eyes, aching fingers, growling stomach, jumbled head. A not-so-young, down-and-going, writer struggles to put his brain to his keyboard. His ideas are always amazing, in theory. His concepts have the potential to be fantastic stories but as soon as he begins to write, he can't figure out how to bring it together. T...
Submitted to Contest #263
A, slight, humid breeze. Damp skin. Persistent flies. A, home-made, turkey sandwich. A park bench. One earbud. Blank stares into the grassy void. I instinctively turn my head, sharply, to the left. "Someone else? I'm usually the only one here", I thought to myself. From the blurry silhouette in the distance, I can tell that they're walking directly towards me. I contemplate getting up to leave, I don't want to be bothered on my, routine, lunch break alone. Ultimately, I decide to stay put. I'll just ignore them. "..this is exactly what I di...
Submitted to Contest #260
"No! Don't use your left hand, use your right hand", pounces onto Hana's mind. She lowers her, half raised, left hand and exchanges it for her right as she picks up her coffee. "You shouldn't use your right hand, go for the left", intrudes on Hana's thoughts as she attempts to open her car door. "Don't listen to this song, skip this song", Hana tries to find music to listen to on her commute to work. "Not this one either.. damn, I really love this song though. It should be fine if I listen to this one.. no, no, let me not.", she skips anothe...
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