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Submitted to Contest #42
He awoke three minutes ahead of the alarm, and since there was now no point to it going off, he disabled the clock. The day was yet to break. So he lay on his back in the dark, hands linked behind his head, listening. His wife breathed quietly beside him. Insects chirped in the yard. A dog was howling in the distance. It was quiet otherwise. It was his birthday, his forty-fifth. 'Old man,' he whispered, grinning. He thought of what might've been, and where he was now. He thought of boyhood buddies who'd gone on to be antagonists in big succe...
Submitted to Contest #38
Two weeks after she went missing, I found Arà's shed skin out in the yard where I'd piled some old broken furniture. She'd gone AWOL numerous times before, but this was the longest she'd stayed missing. Three days later, a big bad boy paid the chicken coop over at my neighbour's a surprise visit and paid for the surprise with his life. I'd snatched aside my bedroom curtains and peered through the glass over the demarcating hedge at the thick of the commotion. Afterwards, in a cold sweat, I went over and asked to see the body. But they'd alre...
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