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Weekly Contest #375
Let me begin by making one thing abundantly clear: Herbert was a ghost, and by that I mean he was an apparition of a dead person. He was not a particularly friendly ghost like, say, Casper. Although, he was not an unfriendly ghost either. Herbert was a ghost who was, by all means, inconsequential. He sometimes stood in the very dark corner of a very dark room in a very dark abandoned farmhouse in the very dark fallow field in a very dark and quiet town. The thing about very dark places was that living people didn’t care so much for them. So ...
Weekly Contest #354
To look to the stars was to stare into the eyes of God. When the skies became dark, we lost our humanity. That summer all of the human race had a crick in their necks from staring up. I remember the last star I ever saw. It blinked out of view behind a too-tall skyscraper the night before the first Columbus mission. The smog had become so thick, it blocked out the sky. I was standing on my balcony with my family and a bottle of champagne. There was so much hope then. It burned behind every eye that looked to the heavens. I feel some regret e...
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