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Weekly Contest #370
I made a mistake. I set out on patrol alone. I knew the outer districts were dangerous, but I had ignored my companions' warnings. Intruders crawled over the walls. They dug tunnels. They could even hide inside the walls themselves. From within, they gnawed away at our city, slowly destroying it from the inside. They were creatures of the night. Just like me. I hadn't expected this. According to my messengers, the larger beasts had been driven south, beyond the ditch. Bill the Butcher was keeping them under control. Or so I had been told—at ...
Weekly Contest #369
A key. A name and a phone number scribbled on a torn little piece of paper. Bettsy Winston. That was all my aunt had left me. An aunt I had been lucky to see once or twice a year. She died peacefully in Mexico, in her sleep. Her friends buried her there. No one in the family had expected anything from her. She was always travelling, always off somewhere. She had lived her own life. She had never allowed anything—or anyone—to define her. But as it turned out, she had left something for everyone. My brother inherited the deed to her flat in Lo...
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