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Submitted to Contest #18
Lighting struck the ground, thunder soon rumbling the ground beneath me. Like the heartbeat of the earth, the raindrops pelted the muddy grass, sliding down the hill and dripping onto the sea of endless pavement, where it was carried along with a current of water and spilled into drains that lined the dimly lit streets, still filled with bustling people, dashing around madly on the sidewalks, yelling into phones over the roaring storm. The lightning flashed in front of me again, followed by sparks flying above the rooftops of the hundr...
Submitted to Contest #11
Scars. A terrifying word to some, to others a trophy, tattooed onto their skin as a sign of strength. That’s what I had thought. A young, foolish woman she was, slinging a bundle of clothes over her ridged shoulders as the pride of stepping away from her childhood home sparked a defiant grin within her heart of stone. I rocked back in the antique chair, groaning with the little pressure it had to hold up. The silence hung heftily over the eerie creak of a wall somewhere in the vast hallways. My rocker moaned again. &nb...
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