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Submitted to Contest #269
Four and a half chapters, filled with intrigue and adventure lay square and sullen beneath a stone paperweight on the oak desktop. A half-sentence of the last paragraph trails into invisible indentations between college-ruled lines. Next to the abandoned pages of escapades, a polished mahogany-wrapped, fine point pen lay coffined in its box, drained of its black blood, no redeeming vial of fluids in sight. “Jenny, are you finished with the manuscript? Book club starts in 45 minutes, and we need copies for everyone before they get here,” Mira...
Submitted to Contest #265
I miss the days of rolling rubber bands off the newspaper, circling classifieds and dotting my map in red ink. Even so, I am old and bored at times, and I know my librarian’s yard sale starts tomorrow, so I open the online marketplace to locate her address. I never find it. I’m detoured by someone cleaning out a storage unit in California. A stack of framed art, tied with twine sucks me into the ad. I refuse to hope. I’ve looked through hundreds of framed pieces over the last twenty-two years with nothing but dead ends and despair. But ...
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