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Weekly Contest #343
November 25, 2020My armpits are slick with perspiration as I hover outside of the boy’s wrestling room. People mill about in the halls, unaware of the mild heart attack I was about to have right there in the middle of the hallway. My mask is fastened tightly across my face like a shield. Thank goodness we still had the requirement to wear masks when they let us back into school. The door opens, and I jump against the wall to hide myself. A massive man wearing a tank top that reveals biceps the size of tree trunks walks out of the doors.No, I...
Weekly Contest #341
**Warning: this story contains themes of sex work It’s for the greater good. That’s what she kept telling herself, at least, when she knocked on the same chipped, red-painted door she knocked on one year ago. Gosh, she was so young back then. How old was she? Eighteen. She had just turned eighteen the week before submitting college applications. That week brings back memories–salty tears streaming down her face as she realized that her middle-class family didn’t qualify for a fee waiver, the wave of adrenaline when someone responded on the a...
Weekly Contest #326
Dan was in the middle of flipping someone off at a bar, cackling with drunken laughter, when the bomb exploded. For a moment, there was only darkness-a world so diluted that it may as well have never existed. This must be what Helen Keller felt like-suspended in a space, living without any real sense of life. Then, light cut through his eyes like knives of sunlight, which caused him to throw his hands over his face in shock. Something warm covered him-a cloth?-but he couldn’t bring his hands away from his eyes. Eventually, the light dimmed,...
Weekly Contest #325
The wind didn’t knock me over but breezed right through my bones. Goose bumps rise on my skin as I involuntarily shiver from the cold starting to infiltrate my beautiful fall days, days where all I needed to do to feel warmth was look up. Winter is coming soon.“June!” A voice says, and I feel an elbow interlock with my own, just as soon as I push open the doors to Lemwood high, my 7-5PM forced job for two more years. Not that I have anywhere better to go. I’ll get a diploma just like everyone else and be one more fish in the pond that eventu...
Weekly Contest #324
I’ve been a sinner from the start. It’s me, Eli. I should have introduced myself first, but I wanted to admit it to you again so you would know I’m aware. You’re probably angry at me every second of every day because I just cannot stop sinning. That has to be a heavy weight to hold, to have sacrificed your only son for the likes of me. You watched as Jesus got whipped with barbs and rocks attached to the ends, again and again until his skin was tender enough to fly off with the whip like shedding skin. He survived the whippings that most men...
The house was cold and unforgiving, chilling Lena to the bone. She wished she could have stayed on campus for winter break, but her scholarship didn’t cover housing during the breaks. So here she is. Back in a home that was dead even before he was gone. The heater is turned off to save money. Dirty dishes fill the sink. Bags of half empty chips and discarded ramen packages litter the kitchen counters. They would have belonged to her brother, but they must be from her mother. Lena opens the pantry; filled to the brim with miscellaneous food i...
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