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Submitted to Contest #102
She was known as Old Lady Dodson, or sometimes The Witch to the kids around the neighborhood. Nobody actually knew if her last name was Dodson though. That was just the name that was on her mailbox. No one had ever been brave enough to find out. She lived alone in the old run-down house at the end of the cul-de-sac on Bayberry Avenue. Timmy Harris claimed that shortly after she moved into the neighborhood, he had seen her burying a body and that she had razor-sharp claws and vampire teeth. Most of the neig...
Submitted to Contest #101
As I stared into his eyes, I could see the pain that he had been hiding behind decades of therapy, various meetings of the Anonymous type, drug cocktails (some prescribed by his doctor, some he got from the curbside pharmacy down his street) and copious amounts of booze. He was almost unrecognizable compared to the young man I knew in the 60s. It was a different time back then. Having just graduated from college, the future looked like it held so many wonderful opportunities. Then on December 1st, 1969, they held the draft.After our tour in ...
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