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Weekly Contest #341
It was a normal day. The sun was out. A few white clouds were in the sky, but it certainly wasn't going to rain. Little rays of light made it through the trees, lighting patches of the forest floor below. It wasn't quiet, because no forest was truly quiet, but all the sounds were expected for the woods. Hazel walked to the house in the forest. It wasn’t far from the road. If you were inside, it wouldn’t be hard to get to the path, and to civilization. But if you didn’t live here, there wasn’t much reason to come.Hazel didn’t have to come alo...
Weekly Contest #337
The amphs, as people called them, invented space travel. The insectoids like to claim they owned the invention, because they’d helped get it off the ground, through funding and advertising it. And the humans liked to take credit for everything. But Nor, as he was known by, knew the truth. The amphs created space travel. The practical kind that made it a regular occurrence, not the getting on a spaceship and traveling through the dark for years and years kind.Of course, not many people could do space travel. Not many people had a job the requ...
Weekly Contest #333
“Hey, Oliver?”“Uh huh?”“You’re doing this because you need olives, yeah? And it can’t be regular olives. Your deity demands red olives?”“Uh huh.”“And natural red olives are apparently rare, but there’s some on the other side of this troll cave?”“Uh huh.”“You’re life is a lot more action packed than I’d assume, for someone with a food deity.”“. . .Uh huh.”Oliver sighed in defeat. Ever since making a deal with the food deity, his life was a lot more action packed than he’d expected, also. Oh not all of it. He did cook, inventing new recipes an...
Weekly Contest #329
Steve once pushed his tongue over his teeth, between the two new fangs. They made it impossible to run his tongue along his teeth.They felt weird. They weren’t that much longer than the rest of his teeth, but human teeth still weren’t meant to protrude like that. Their mouths weren’t shaped for it. (But he wasn’t human any more, was he?)Now he knew why Dracula had that exaggerated voice. It was hard to talk with fangs sometimes. Well, that probably wasn’t the reason he was given that voice. It was just. . .His name was Steve. He had to be ca...
Weekly Contest #319
Nerium didn’t like going around in his human disguise. It kept some of his features, like his strong sense of smell and pointy teeth. But that wasn’t always a good thing. For example, there were some very strong scents in the mortal realm, that could be a little overwhelming. They’d passed a man selling soap, and all the scents melded together into a mess so strong, it felt like he was eating the soap. Although, he supposed that was better than smelling the humans who didn’t use it.Also, his skin felt too small for his bones, his face pushin...
Weekly Contest #316
It was a normal day. Scarlet and her mentor, Hugh, had gone to the small mall in town. Hugh. Also known as the hero Bluejay.They were looking for shoes. Scarlet had a red pair of boots for her “hero” outfit, her working boots. But the shoes she wore otherwise were wearing out.They didn’t have anything else going on that day, so far as they knew. If they wanted to stop anywhere else, that was an option.Scarlet was pretty sure the mall had been closed in summer. It was open now, with visitors coming to town to ski. There were a fair number of ...
Weekly Contest #300
The sky was gray and overcast. The ground below was also gray. Little dust clouds puffed up when people stepped down. Many people in town wore masks or goggles while outside to prevent too much from getting in their face. Today, little gray flakes were also drifting down.Some people said the flakes were ash, but Tama wasn’t sure of that. What could possibly be burning so much that ash came down from the sky? Multiple times?People said the reason the land was so barren was because of the Omens of Strive, demons come to the mortal realm to mak...
Weekly Contest #290
Hettie walked through a field of short grass. Enough trees were around that the sun was just warm, not uncomfortable beating heat. She could hear a river at the bottom of the hill. Her dress blew in the wind, but her leggings and boots kept thorny plants and bugs away.In one hand was a small basket of seeds. A random mix of mostly wild flowers, if the leader of this volunteer group was right. Some of them would be considered weeds to most people. She’d reach in with her other hand sometimes, and sprinkle seeds across the hill.She knew this w...
Weekly Contest #287
Decay let Secca prepare the tea. He put some dried leaves, and a few flower petals, into a strainer. He put the strainer into their teapot, which already had hot water, and let it steep.It wasn’t like Decay literally couldn’t prepare tea. He was sitting at his desk, and neither the desk nor chair were rotting. Nor was the floor, which was good, seeing as they were on the second floor of the building. If he touched the tea leaves, they wouldn’t literally crumble into dust. He had better control than that. But cooking, preparing food or drink,...
Weekly Contest #281
Decay stood at the front of an empty classroom, staring at the empty desks, and the door that stood just ajar. It was too dark in the hallway beyond to see out there.He was allowed to decorate the classroom as he wanted, and he had a feeling he'd do that eventually. This skeleton of a room wasn't interesting. But he hadn't yet. Didn't know what he'd want.It didn't stay empty for long. Two students filed in, one looking at him with skepticism, the other looking at her shoes and fumbling with her books.Secca? Any advice? Decay asked, internall...
Weekly Contest #275
The first thing Ray was aware of was darkness. That might not sound like much, but he hadn't been aware of anything a moment ago. So it was certainly a change. The next thing he was aware of was that he was lying on stone, with stone walls on either side of him. He'd bump into them if he tried to move even a little. And there was a stone wall above him.That explained the darkness, but he wasn't thinking hard about that right now. He wasn't thinking about much of anything, except that he was trapped in a tiny dark space, and he needed to get ...
Weekly Contest #272
Corry put on a bed sheet. It fell through him to a crumpled heap on the floor the first time or two. He concentrated, and got it to stay though. He dropped lower, feet on the ground, so the sheet was on the floor. No floating here. Then he stepped outside.It was Halloween. The sun was setting. Pumpkins and porch lights were lit. Children ran around in costumes, sometimes with parents, sometimes in groups. They went from house to house, knocking and asking for candy.Some of the houses were lackluster. They gave candy if someone knocked, but o...
Weekly Contest #264
Bethel sat, hands clasped on their round dinning table. A cooling cup of coffee sat beside her. She'd taken maybe one sip.Her oldest child, Vaa, sat asleep in a chair beside her. Not that oldest was saying much. She was three.Outside, her husband Nev was marching their younger child around the garden, trying to calm him down. He would normally be working by now, but he'd understandably been given the day off. If it was a normal day, Bethel would also have taken both kids to the nearby park. There was an area for very young children like her ...
Weekly Contest #258
"I wish you would leave me alone!"The shadow demon grinned at him, from where it took vague shape in the street curb's shadow.Gray sat in the stairwell of an apartment building he didn't live in. There were large windows in the stairwell, and he could take pictures of the hummingbirds outside at the feeder from there.A rare one came by, and Gray put the camera out the window to get a good picture.Gray's eyes widened, his vision going dark around the edge, only focused on the shadow demon in front of him."Is that so?" the shadow demon chuckle...
Weekly Contest #257
"The name I have here is Aris.""That clearly says Avic, you hear? Av-ik.""You could be lying about that.""And so could she."Like the rest of the small crowd, Mercia was drawn to the front steps of the mage school because she heard a commotion. Those were the first words she'd actually managed to make out, between the headmaster and a boy, about her age. Another professor was holding his elbow, but he pulled away with the slightest tug, and straightened his shirt."Did you look into your students at all before letting them into a dorm? Or did ...
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