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Weekly Contest #349
If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. If you heat the water with the frog, it will boil alive. Or so they say. And that’s how we got here, wasn’t it? Not all at once. No fire falling from the sky. No sirens ringing in the air. It was quieter than that. One adjustment here. A compromise, a small one really. Perhaps a white lie. Before anyone could consider jumping, the water was already boiling. It’s almost comforting, isn’t it? The belief that disaster will come all at once. Loud. Undeniable. Ubiquitous – something...
Weekly Contest #325
The breeze buffets my body. My skirt whips in the wind. I can taste salt on my chapped lips. In the corner of my eye, I can see a child flying a kite. Vibrant colors of yellow, blue, red, and green flash high in the sky, like rippling fragments of stained glass. Next to him is a little girl. She is crying, likely for a turn with the colorful toy. I can faintly hear her over the waves crashing onto the shore — a high, tremulous sound swallowed by the surf.Sand squishes between my toes. I don’t know where my shoes are. The grains cling like me...
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