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Weekly Contest #90
‘Outside.’ I’d never seen the sky. They told us it was a blue cloth draped over the world holding the burning monster that had driven us deep under the earth. My life lay underneath. The grottos shaped from rock cradled us against ‘The Outside’. My school was in Cave 3, a round open space here we sat, and listened, scratched our answers on stones. “Well done Ayana that’s correct.” “Please miss what were the trees like? Tell me again.” She sat beside me and drew in the dust....
Weekly Contest #85
The knife glinted at my throat; his eyes skewered into mine. I froze, my words, pleading and desperate, stuck in my mouth. The black hood fell over his face. He brushed it back. I stared into the dark eyes; did I know him? I inched closer to the hedge and my brain kicked free. So did my knee. I thrust up, he doubled over, grunted with the pain. I ran. Glad of my trainers for city living I pounded over the pavement towards the lights. ‘Stupid, stupid,’ I muttered the words between gasps and vowed to avoid...
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