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Weekly Contest #372
My little girl is sick, and not the kind of sick that medicine can fix. She seems to have the same illness as her mother, Denise. Before she jumped from our ten-story apartment balcony, believing that her shadow was trying to hurt our 3-month-old daughter, Melissa. That was six years ago, though, but in the last few weeks, she’s been acting like her mother. Last week, I had to pick Melissa up from school because she was screaming in the bathroom stall for thirty minutes, thinking that her shadow was trying to grab her ankle. Just like Denise...
Weekly Contest #363
I finally learned how to swim. It took me a while, most of my life really. But, it’s only been in a pool; small, controllable. I needed to challenge myself. I went to the lake behind the church I grew up in. Nothing had changed. The grass was the same height, the water the same bluish-green I remembered. But, the trees seemed slightly taller than when I was a kid. They hung over the shallow end of the water, their shadows outlined the safety of the shore. Baptisms, summer swimming lessons, occasional fishing, it all happened here. At a time ...
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