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Submitted to Contest #323
WAKING UP When you open your eyes, check to see if the monster is creeping around. If he is, don’t move. Don’t even breathe. The monster doesn’t like being disturbed during his nightly wanderings. Close your eyes and go back to sleep—or at least pretend to. You’ve woken up too soon. If you wake up and the room is clear, knock three times on the post of your bed frame. Whistle high, then whistle low. This will alert the monster: you are getting out of bed. You don’t want to startle him under there. He lashes out when he’s startled, and it wo...
Submitted to Contest #322
I slammed the door shut against the church bells that tolled for vespers, lest the sacred sound mingle with the profane air of Dr. Shriver’s laboratory. The rain had claimed me for itself on my way here. I dripped with it as I peeled off my gloves. The storm battered the windows, trying to reach me still. I wished for silence—no bells, no rain, just room for my tumultuous thoughts. The laboratory was still. No hissing steam or gurgling liquids, no shuffling of papers or murmuring of formulae. Only a rat scuffling in a cage. It was finished. ...
Submitted to Contest #320
Cyrina wrapped her arms around herself and stared at the trees painted black in the gloaming. She knew it was only going to get darker, and the only respite was the silvery white moon peeking through the leaves overhead. All she’d wanted to do was get out of that cramped saddle and away from Leander—away from his body pressed behind hers, away from his breath in her hair. But now, standing in the midst of a dark wood, wondering what creatures lurked between the trees and what insects were crawling up her legs, she wished she were up on the h...
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