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Weekly Contest #42
My mother stood facing the kitchen sink with her back to me.Her eyes were red and swollen and she was scrubbing at some small bit of burnt detritus sticking to the bottom of the saucepan. The sponge had been abandoned and she was attempting to use her fingernail, squinting as the late afternoon sun hit her face through the western-facing kitchen window. An errant strand of hair hung in her eyes and she tried to shake it clear. She wore thin white linen pants and her feet were bare.I remembered sitting between those feet as a small child. She...
Weekly Contest #39
Kel had always thought of herself as an adventurer. Intrepid yet prepared. Brave yet calculating. She had visited thirty star systems and countless planets. But now, staring into a monitor at the image of her distraught guide, knowing that the transporter was beyond Earth’s atmosphere by now, Kel was tempted to use other, less flattering adjectives to describe herself. Gosh, had she ever been on a planet alone before? This was a first. Her habitual tardiness had really landed her in a mess. “You left your comm on the transporter?”...
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