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Submitted to Contest #97
I always find myself thinking about Eli at the most random times during the day. I could be doing the dishes and all of a sudden, his adorable youthful face would pop into my mind. He really was a likeable kid, and not all kids are likeable. Actually, most kids are terribly annoying, but not Eli. He was intelligent. Even as a five-year-old he was more intelligent than most grown-ups I know. He was incessantly curious. One time, I came home from playing baseball outside and he asked, out of the blue, how baseball gloves were made. Mind you, h...
Submitted to Contest #96
The air in the room was close; fluorescent light overhead shone in ostentation, as if taunting in expectation whoever dared enter it. Ominous silence permeated into the corners, brewing, until with a loud bang the door swung open, almost piercing the porcelain air; like prodding into a balloon with a needle, with apprehension, until it bursts. “Where is she?” Upon entering, a woman of stocky stature asked, repeated herself importunately, and sighed in frustration as she realized no one was there. She heaved herself down on the chair ...
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