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Weekly Contest #349
Today is April 31st. Outside, the Sun refracts through a driving rain that pounds at the window as if trying to break into the old, musty house. He sits at his desk, his notebook opened up to a blank page that trails sheets full of barely legible short stories he has been compiling since grade school; tales of strife, pain, suffering, and the murkiness that life so often brings forth. While penmanship was never his strong suit, he can’t dismiss the thought that hand writing his stories is somehow far better than typing them. The dusty booksh...
Weekly Contest #348
Thump, thump. Thump, thump. My heart starts to race as I glance at the clock on the wall. It ticks by with each second sounding like a rapidly intensifying heartbeat. Tick, tick, tick. Thump, thump. Thump, thump. The seconds are all equal, but the growing anticipation as each second passes makes me increasingly nauseous. My heart is struggling to keep up with the anxiety; its ever-increasing beating feels like it is about to leap out of my chest. A pit is forming in my gut; a black hole whose only existence is to suck my heart, my lungs, my ...
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