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Weekly Contest #349
Today is April 31. Jade sets the battered tin kettle atop the still-glowing embers. Her fingers are thin, wrinkled, useful. The shelter creaks with the rocking of Sebastian’s rope hammock. How tender he looks, with his hands tucked beneath his face, just as he slept as a boy. Even then, his small, tan fingers covered his soft cheekbone, hiding his tattoo. Jade’s eyes take in the sky–breathy and promising. The encampment is not yet awake; the distant machines have not yet begun their groaning. As the loose spearmint and hyssop leaves rise, ...
Weekly Contest #36
September 28th, 2008Fig Newtons?! What was she kidding? Danielle will never get it right. I used to always get the cafeteria hot lunch. I’d grab a tray and they’d give me something good like cheeseburgers, pizza, hotdogs! But SHE said it was “unhealthy.” Danielle’s probably sitting in her office now, wearing some fancy gray suit outfit, thinking about what an awesome new step-mom she is, packing my lunch, in my lunch box. But actually she just took away something I reallllly like and gave me these crumbly Fig Newtons and lame sandwich everyd...
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