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Weekly Contest #190
Benny and I like to crush out the cigarette butts. We trudge round and round, alternately smashing cigs and kicking up the sugary sand that seeps out from under the squared circle that's been brought in special for tonight and situated smack on top of the Oakville Leafs pitcher's box. I am eleven and he is nine and we are waiting for Dad to come down from the announcer's booth on the flat roof of the ball stadium. Elvis croons "It’s Now or Never" over the loudspeakers where only an hour ago Dad had been calling the Mighty Wonders of the Wor...
Weekly Contest #150
Melanie Raskin MMRReadme@nc.rr.com My Brother’s Keeper (2985 words) He imagines the 6 as pink with purple polka dots. But, what is pink? And, purple? He doesn’t understand color, has never seen them because he is a black and white model, the Brother HL 2270DW. Aerlion does not see a need for color in her work, which he understands perfectly, because her prose is as dry as Desert iStock Reference Photo 488A Only, dusty and colorless and choking. Sometimes Brother coughs and sputters on the arid taste of her words in print, the taste of li...
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