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Weekly Contest #378
The first child came to my door carrying a plastic pumpkin full of teeth. I thought they were candy. He wore a rabbit mask with one bent ear and a blue coat buttoned wrong. Rain collected in the split seam of his sneaker. “Trick or treat.” I dropped a chocolate bar into his bucket. It struck something with a delicate rattle. Molars. Yellow ones with long roots. Tiny white incisors. Three teeth still joined by something pink. “Good costume,” I said. He raised his masked face. “Is it?” Across the street, someone called for a child named Oliver...
Weekly Contest #377
The Things We Leave Behind A ghost story told by the one who never left The first thing you should know about being dead is that it isn't nearly as peaceful as people imagine. There are no angels waiting at the foot of your bed. No brilliant white light. No long-lost relatives reaching out their arms to welcome you home. At least, there weren't for me. There was only the sound of rain against the windows, the smell of burnt toast drifting up from the kitchen, and the rather unsettling realization that I was standing beside my own body. I rem...
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