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Submitted to Contest #91
12:23. My watch face blinks up at me in flashes of green that feel out of place amongst the golden lamplight around me. When had it gotten so late? Glancing up at the massive main clock, mounted on the far wall at the other end of the library, I was surprised to read that it displayed the same time. It ticked morosely. Leaning back in my chair, I stifled a sneeze - reluctant to disturb the titanic quiescence consuming the library - and removed my glasses to rub at my eyes. The thick Neuroscience encyclopedia on the desk in front of me that h...
Submitted to Contest #90
I woke up to a world of ash and dust. I remember that the first thing I tasted was soil; my first breaths were ones of smog and tickling spores; the air was thick with petrichor; and I could feel every photoreceptor in my body tingling. I awoke in a world where I was alone. At first, I didn’t know what to do with myself. The first weeks of my life are but a blur in my mind, but I remember one day feeling my body begin to wilt as the nutrients in the soil around me began to deplete. The spindly roots that bound me to the soil beneath my...
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