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Weekly Contest #158
“One day they will go too far, Stefan!” his older brother's words played back in his head. “Soon we will have to rise up and dare to be free again!” Sixteen-year-old Stefan watched a tired, silver dawn emerge behind the smokestacks of the main factory where he had just ended his twelve-hour night shift. The factories surrounding the town created a controlled border that forced the population into labor. No one could leave. As the p...
Weekly Contest #154
I do not know how I came to be here. I’m stuck in this cold white-tiled tunnel, polished and hard, watching the strange trains without wheels taking and bringing people every minute. I'm caught in this never-ending bustle of what they call Life. I yearn for the day to be free of this commotion, to no longer hold this tin cup in my hand and wear this sign around my neck saying, ‘A Penny For Your Time.’ A man, no more than forty, with a large suitcase clamored out of the subway train with a briefcase under his ar...
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