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Submitted to Contest #300
I didn’t find the trailhead. I found a trailhead. And that was the problem.The poem doesn’t warn you—it invites you in. Every line seems to glow with meaning. Until you realize it glows like a trick candle: bright, false, and hard to extinguish.I started my search like everyone else: with a map and a hunch. But to get where I ended up, I had to tear that hunch apart, follow constellations through shaded terrain, and admit I’d misread the compass more than once.It began the way these things always do: too many searchers, too many theories, an...
Submitted to Contest #299
I was probably three or four years old when I opened the wrong Christmas gift — and it changed everything.It was a magician’s kit. Sleek black box, mirrored sides, mysterious compartments. I didn’t know how it worked — I just knew it was magic. My heart exploded with excitement… for about three seconds. Then someone said, “Oh, wait, that’s not yours,” and swapped it for the right one: a book-on-tape about a giant named Gallagher who gets tied to the earth.It was a good story. But it wasn’t magic.That moment stuck.Even now, I think of that bl...
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