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Weekly Contest #221
I am standing in front of the picture window, the one in our living room that faces the front yard, looking out at a sea of snow. It is winter; the snow has every right to be here. But to me it feels like Mother Nature is rubbing salt into our wounds, isolating us as if we were living inside a snow globe. Staring out the window is a great way to kill time, and that is all I do now, waiting out the season, waiting out grief, neither of which seems to have an ending. But I'm not just staring; I am searching, I'm on the lookout for life. Anyth...
Weekly Contest #215
Emma had made the dish before, but that was years ago, long before she moved into her current home, where the oven’s maximum temperature was three hundred degrees. She wrinkled her nose as she read the thermometer. It’s a shame rare chicken had such a bad rap. “I’m afraid it’s going to be a bit longer,” she called to her date for the night, the first man she’d ever invited into her home for dinner, and perhaps a little bit more? The anticipation had her heart fluttering all day. Intimacy was on the menu! She was craving that more than what ...
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