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Weekly Contest #347
My mother once told me that my dad was an alien. I was six when she told me that. Now, my parents were born and raised in another country, Peru. They moved here after dad got through med school, and did his residency in Chicago. So, I first thought she meant he was born in another country. But looking at her vacant eyes and expressionless face, her mouth open like a child, her hair unkempt and pointing at all angles, I realized she meant the flying saucer kind. Then she said, -Thats why you are so good at math and science. This is the first ...
Weekly Contest #327
We were giving the kids a bath when the lights in the bathroom went off by themselves. Sheila and I looked at each other in the dimness and laughed.Funny, I said. Whats weird is the hallway lights are on. In fact, no other lights are off upstairs. Ive never seen that.Our house was new to us and we were still discovering it. I bought this house on the island for my new corporate job. I commuted to the mainland every day on a ferry. Its not that weird, Sheila said, as she scrubbed chocolate pudding off of Isaac’s chest. Our kids were playing w...
Weekly Contest #324
CW: Accidental injury Tata's driver dropped us off at the top of the hill. The sun glints off the metal inside the car had burned my eyes.I blinked hard and fast to get rid of the blinding red afterimages.Outside the car was better.I looked straight out and saw the gutter of the sapphire sky and the seamless flat green of the ocean.No whitecaps, just rare lone rollers coming from infinity.Squinting I could saw white patches of boats standing still in the distance. It was just a short walk to our family's bungalow in San Bartolo, Peru.The gra...
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