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Submitted to Contest #239
21:45 The smell of burnt rubber was still there, faint yet noticeable at the end of every breath, the olfactory equivalent of a bitter aftertaste. One that no amount of fresh air could seem to get rid of. The windows were rolled down all the way and the night air through the forest road was crisp in that unique way forest air is crisp during an early spring night. Yet the smell was undoubtedly there. A smidgen of something almost rotten yet somehow artificial. He’d checked the car, twice, front to back. Stopped at the...
Submitted to Contest #237
It was almost sundown and everything was pink and gold when the man awoke to find himself on the roof terrace of the abandoned shopping mall. He was sitting on one of several plastic chairs scattered under weather-worn umbrellas in what looked like an outdoors café. It seemed to him that his rise from slumber happened to coincide with the exact time the street lights came on, their tops being visible just beyond a concrete ledge at the edge of the terrace a few feet away from where he was sitting. The automated bulbs came to life with an imp...
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