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Weekly Contest #367
He was sitting at the bar, staring deeply into a glass of pale liquid with the faintest tinge of brown to it. His shoulders looked like they were barely held to their sockets as they curled in on themselves as if to ward off an unseen blow from the world around him. He had bags beneath his eyes and lines creased his face more than he remembered from a couple years back. He didn’t seem that old, but already the reflection in the mirror behind the bar seemed to paint the picture of a lonely old man sitting on his regular barstool, which made h...
Weekly Contest #221
The day was a chill winter one, with snow coming down in the steady way that covers a city street in a thick comforter of childhood memory. There were few people outside, with most shoveling or running some errand that couldn’t wait for the storm to clear. I, like most sensible people, preferred to stay inside. There’s something about the cold that always made me happy as a child; it might have been the holidays or the way the cold air allowed a person to swaddle themselves like a baby. I used to think it made one feel more alive, an...
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