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Weekly Contest #104
Checkmate. That was the first time you and I met. All it took was one more than the starting move, and just like that, I was already gone. I remember then that I still hadn’t known you by name. You were but an avatar on a computer screen whose existence was as far from me as the sun is from earth. You were there as my first opponent, and the frustration that you hammered into this conceited newbie lingered more than I could admit, but your existence, no matter how apparent it was to me, no matter how close it was for that one moment, wa...
Weekly Contest #102
TW: violence, death “The bigger the fruit, the easier they fall.” That was what the stranger said a fortnight ago when the two of them had been in the garden to harvest the already plump, reddish mangoes. Because of the drought however, there were only two to three trees left for harvesting, and the distances between fruitful trees and withered ones were surprisingly far. Then, the sun had already begun to set, and the cool of the night wind was already starting to depose the sweltering afternoon heat, now dispersed across the darkened sky i...
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