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Weekly Contest #349
TW: Coercion, exploitation Today is April 31. Let that sink in. For those who never paid attention, for the past four hundred-plus years April has comprised 30 days. However, the government’s recent installation of an extra day in order to fulfill its promise to amend the Military Selective Service Act prior to May 1 to replenish a severely depleted military has resulted in a change to the Gregorian calendar humans have been using to track and plan the passage of days, weeks, and months since 1582. One wonders—“That’s enough,” the secretary ...
Weekly Contest #340
Ellie hadn’t expected to recognize her mother. Years—decades—had passed since she was the young Gena in pictures Ellie would dig out of the box in her dad’s closet, so when envisioning their first meeting Gena was always crooked-backed and gray. Sunken. A remnant of a life, even though Ellie would have known to answer, if asked, that her mother was only fifty-two. But when her mother had finally emerged from the old Toyota she’d parked against the funeral home’s curb, Ellie had known her—her face, anyway—immediately. Even under the maple’s s...
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