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Submitted to Contest #339
“Stop right there!” The store manager blasted. The blonde wearing khakis froze. Her back stiffened and hair follicles tightened as she stood between her accuser and freedom. How did she get in this predicament? Lacey worked at a hipster bookstore café. She loved the chill environment, talking to interesting people about speculative fiction, and all the coffee and biscottis her uninsured teeth could handle. The pay was decent, and the hours were even better: bookseller by day, changing the world by night. Alberto, whose real name was Vincent ...
Submitted to Contest #220
Kelly McGillicutty walked down Jameson St. on her way home from work every day. Along the way, she would stop by the French bakery to pick up a baguette for dinner and a chocolate éclair for sustenance, her husband and children didn’t know about the éclair, it was her guilty pleasure. Once she left the bakery she started walking down the city’s designated walking/bicycle path that ran alongside the creek and woods’ edge. On this particular October Friday, the air was crisp, a fierce wind picked up, and the clouds gathered unexpectedly. Lucy...
Submitted to Contest #77
Mother Nature Has Different Plans By Kerri Shanley It was the year Mother Nature was confused. Hades was holding Persephone longer than the agreed-upon terms, causing winter to go on longer than usual. The gray days of December and January extended into April and May. When June rolled around the weather started to warm up, but not much, like the mild breezy spring weather. Masey Higgins went to a college in Utah, not too far away from where the famous people hang out during the film festivals. Masey took a weekend job at one of the reso...
Submitted to Contest #63
Timmy and Felicity were thick as thieves, or so the saying goes. As soon as the sun rose Timmy was knocking on Felicity’s door asking her mom if she could come out and play, and they caused mischief until the sun went down and their parents called them in for dinner. After dinner, they would talk through their homemade soup can phones. During the summers they would light ants on fire, pour salt on snails watching them shrivel up, and other non-felonious childhood activities. One of their favorite summer activities was sneaking into Farmer H...
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