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Weekly Contest #354
The room was always loudest in the beginning—laughter erupting, voices carrying, the sound of shoes meeting the floor. Each Tally in the room belonged to someone. A human, somewhere out there, who had not yet decided their vote. Until they did, you waited. Tally #10,250 had been here before. Twice to be exact. Many of them had, but the noise at the start still caught him each time. Veiled conversations bounced off the walls like a second heartbeat. Across the room, five doors lined the wall in a long, even row. They were plain doors. Unremar...
Weekly Contest #353
The dead came to him at the river bank, and he took them across, and he returned, and they came again. He had been doing it since before the river had a name. The light came and went. He had stopped noting which. Wolves had come to him. Eagles. Animals so small he could not name them. He took them all the same way, with the same pole, to the same dark shore. There had been a time when he watched them reach the far bank. When he waited to see them step ashore before he turned back. He did not do that anymore. He stood tall in the water, grey...
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