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Submitted to Contest #149
The solitary lightbulb set into the ceiling of the small bunker flickers, threatening to cast us into complete darkness. The glinting causes the shadows cast across the cement walls to dance, the sight perhaps more chilling than darkness itself—at least in the dark you don’t see as death creeps up on you. Even after the decades of nuclear weapons looming over us like death itself—ever menacing, ever drawing nearer, but rarely paid heed to. Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after the Cold War, after Yeltsin, after the Eastern con...
Submitted to Contest #148
The beat of the bass pulses through my body, making my nerves tingle and washing away the thoughts from my crowded mind. The trouble is, this is not my music, and those thoughts eddying out of my head are my livelihood. I gave myself six months to detach and focus, and the ending would come: I would finish my novel at last. But it’s been six weeks, and I am no closer to giving my heroine the resolution she deserves. I came to Mayfair for peace and quiet, and the last thing I had anticipated was my ignorant, boorish, tyran...
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