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Weekly Contest #375
"Why?" Elana Marin asked the world, in general, the question for the third time that morning. "Why?" The village or world seemed reluctant to answer. Nothing was obviously wrong. The October sky was pale but clear. Smoke rose in thin gray columns from the chimneys above the roofs. Somewhere beyond the church, a delivery truck groaned into gear. Yet the morning felt misplaced, as though Elana had awakened on the correct day of the week, but something was seriously off; she was late, yet again. Even the bells of St. Joseph Cathedral had sou...
Weekly Contest #374
Jack Turner noticed the brass door because it was not there the day before. He stopped at the start of the narrow hallway beneath the old municipal library, next to the subway entrance, and stared at it. The basement, normally a place of pipes, dust, forgotten files, spare unused furniture, and humming fluorescent lights, had a new door. Jack knew every turn. He had worked in the building for eleven years, repairing locks, changing fixtures, and fixing whatever everyone else had stopped noticing. But this door was new – or impossibly old. It...
Weekly Contest #254
The office buzzed with the usual hum of keyboards and murmurs of conversation. George leaned back in his chair, eyeing his colleagues, Ed and Ahmed. "I'm telling you guys," George said, leaning forward, "there's no way that 'The Troll' is eligible for hiring here. She doesn't know the programs. Sure, she talks like she does, but she's just offloading her work onto her staff. I saw it firsthand when I asked to help. I would gather evidence through my assistance and expose her. When I questioned why she refused my assistance, she told me to m...
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