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Submitted to Contest #195
I pull my head up from the hard table, rubbing my eyes awake. I must’ve fallen asleep only a little while ago; there is still light outside. The trees outside my window sway in the breeze and I notice a few reddy-brown leaves falling from up high, landing in the tall grass of the field below. Shifting my focus inside, I look across the table in front of me and realise that dark chestnut wood is almost invisible. Maps, letters, news articles and photographs are strewn across the table, and I chuckle at my lack of organisation. I pick up a pil...
Submitted to Contest #184
Silence. And not the good kind of silence either. The kind of silence that hurts your ears. The kind of silence that makes your heart drop and your stomach do flips. The kind of silence that makes you feel so queasy you need to sit down. There was just one problem, I could not see where to sit down. I could not see anything. Nothing at all. The blackout had started around 50 minutes ago and it just so happened that it was almost exactly 51 minutes ago that I had witnessed a murder. The murder of a stranger, yet I felt as if I had known...
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