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Weekly Contest #378
She was somewhere west of Wendover when she decided to go back for him. Wendover, the only population center on a lonesome stretch of Interstate 80, was in fact two towns in one. West Wendover, Nevada and Wendover, Utah spilled into one another across the state line, but their separate identities only mattered to the few thousand people who lived there. When visitors from the Salt Lake Valley said, “let’s go to Wendover for the weekend,” they did not mean Wendover, Utah. They were drawn to the power of the border, the nexus of a state that ...
Weekly Contest #178
Dolores did not like the holidays. She did not appreciate the forced feeling of communal celebration, nor the saccharine cheeriness that they pumped through supermarket speakers and home television sets. She hated the upbeat jangle of jingle bells, both the sickening song and the so-called instrument that evoked the indentured servitude of horses. She did not understand why a compulsory holiday fell during the coldest time of the year, when the air hurt her face when she dared to step outside. But there was one festivity she could not avoid...
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