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Weekly Contest #370
It began when Mara was seven. Other children closed their eyes at night and their dreams would happen. Mara’s dreams, however, would happen because of her. She remembered the first time being inside a lucid dream and having a feeling of understanding and reflection as to what she was doing. Mara stood inside a room she had built that was filled to her waist in candy and with nobody telling her to stop. Another night she filled a field with a hundred puppies that climbed into her lap and licked her face until she laughed herself awake. She al...
Weekly Contest #362
Danny got to the house on Ferris Street first, which he had planned, because he wanted a few minutes alone in it before his brothers arrived and filled it up with themselves. He stood in the front room among the cardboard and thought, deliberately, this is the last time I will stand in this room, and then he wondered whether thinking a thing on purpose so that you could feel it counted as really feeling it, or whether it was just a performance staged for an audience of one. He had thoughts like this constantly. He had never decided whether t...
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