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Weekly Contest #160
We never understood anything about each other. We didn’t know each other’s last name and we definitely never heard the other’s middle name. We didn’t know why we ended every night together, side by side on the couch in front of the TV screen. We talked about our days at work, about things we could do this weekend, but neither of us knew what the other’s job really entailed. We never ended up going camping or trying a new restaurant out that weekend. We were caught in a loop, watching shows on TV but it was like the TV was watching us. Watchi...
Weekly Contest #158
“Wrong side!” My mouth is dry. The skin of my cheeks sticks to my gums and those were the first words I’d spoken in hours. Wrong side. When you’re in the dark, lost in thought, and your fingers place a stog between your lips with the dried tobacco side open in your mouth, you don’t notice at first. You don’t notice, still, when your thumb’s holding the gas down on a lighter a little too long… the metal heating up against your skin. You might let it burn until that terrible taste of the melting filter violates you from t...
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