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Submitted to Contest #196
Some people are lucky or willful enough to love where they live. They're either blind to flaws or there are none to find.How do you fit into that?Garbage, as far as the eye can see. As far as you're concerned. Muck and mire.But you pass by people, as well, and they go with clear eyes. They hold tiny hands and answer inane questions with a grin. They march with purpose, bags clutched to chests, briefcases fixed in white-knuckled grips. It seems like they all have DESTINATION printed on their foreheads.Your hands are small. You have a bag, tho...
Submitted to Contest #148
A Tenuous Treaty The elevator started to close, but that shouldn’t have mattered. People held elevators all the time, especially when they noticed a straggler, red-faced and puffing with the exertion to make it in time. It shouldn’t have mattered, even though there was only one person within it. It shouldn’t have mattered, since that person saw me. That person smiled, and of course it was malicious. Because it came from Melanie. &nb...
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