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Submitted to Contest #90
*Author’s Note: I’ve only played scrabble once in my life, so I don’t know how many tiles there are or what the rules are. I think you can play it by yourself, but if not, my apologies. Thanks😊Seven…needy…elephant…tortoise…silve-The young man pauses, scanning the row of letters before him. There’s an A, a C, and two Es left. All other tiles sit on the board. No more words.The train jerks and bumps along the tracks, the windows frosty and opaque. Third class is cramped with people; mothers holding fussy babies, Englishmen reading The Daily Su...
Submitted to Contest #82
I didn’t mean to destroy the piano. I blamed most of it on the weather. It was a hot summer for New York. Heat made people angry. Of course, celebrations still raged. The war had just ended. Deaf in one ear from a riding accident, I had avoided the draft. But I wasn’t celebrating. I had one more exam before I graduated from Juilliard. One last exam. Not written. Not oral. Audible. The piece was Ravel. My last act, and for good reason. Ravel was hard. Hardest piece on earth. And though I did not lack talent,...
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