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Weekly Contest #86
Once upon a time, in a land that never was, there lived a young maiden…. Cleo throws open the shutters, letting in the new day. The breeze whips through her slightly disheveled hair, long and golden in the morning sun. Rabbits scamper in the underbrush. Two little blue birds dance rings around one another, chirping with love songs, as they grow nearer Cleo’s little cottage in the woods. They land in an evergreen tree, facing Cleo, their sweet song peaking until…. “Oh, shut it, will you!” Their chirping cuts off abruptly. Both their heads sli...
Weekly Contest #83
June 4, 2020 - somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - 11:30am Hawaiian Standard Time You know when you wake up and literally have your head buried in your ass that something, somewhere, went horribly wrong. As I bounced and froze in the tiny space, I consoled myself with two, irrefutable facts. One, I had succeeded. Two, no one knew I was there. “We know you’re there,” a voice crackled distantly over an intercom from the cargo hold above. Well, shit. New York - 27 hours earlier…. “M’am,” I said to the customer servi...
The course sand scraped beneath my belly, salty foam lapping and tugging at me from behind. Trying to take me back. Memories burned behind an invisible wall. Long, dark shapes flung themselves into the sand within my field of shadowy vision. Water rushed up around me again, dragging at the limbs behind me. I blinked, my eyes focusing a little more each second. A whoosh scraped it’s way from my lungs, seared my throat, and retched through my gaping mouth. Seawater poured in a dribble down my chin and caught in my lanky hair. Inch by i...
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