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Weekly Contest #342
Embers at Juniper Ridge The first time Cora Bellemy met Wade Ashcroft, she was standing in mud, arguing with a goat. “This is not how we treat our guests. You can’t jump on them and chew on their yoga mats.” She informed the goat. Who was standing there, chewing on her coat zipper?“Doesn’t seem to be listening to you.”The voice came from behind her, low and gravelly, like it had been carved out of pine bark.Cora turned too fast, boots slipping, and hands waving in the air. She would have landed face-first in the mud if a hand hadn’t reached ...
I am in my grandmother’s attic when the book takes me from my life and places me somewhere else.The attic stretches the length of the house, narrow and low, with a sharply slanted roof that forces me to walk hunched forward. Thick wooden beams cross overhead, darkened by decades of heat and dust. Every surface is coated in a gray film that softens edges and dulls color. The air smells of cedar, old paper, and insulation that has long since lost its purpose. When I move, the dust rises and settles again slowly, as if the room itself resists d...
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