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Weekly Contest #291
Fighting Fires From birth I had been told to avoid fire. “You can never fight fire with fire,” my mother said. While those words are usually meant in a figurative context, my mother meant it literally. My father was a fireman and had been trapped in a burning house. She told me I would meet the same fate. Since then, she avoided any flames. No candles, no gas stove, no fireplace, and so on and so on. Finally, I moved out and was able to see fire. It was entrancing. The beautiful ways it danced in the light it created, leaving images burned ...
Weekly Contest #277
Hush witch, hush witch, sleep steady and sound.You paid for your safety and to stay out of the ground.Hush witch, oh hush witch, till the ring of the bell.We left you a pittance so we won’t go to hell. Hush child, hush child, I can hear you in here,I left you a nice treat so you’ll lend me an ear.Hush child, oh hush child, sweet child of mine.Come in for dinner, we won’t waste any time. Hush child, hush child, with glass houses and stones,You left me here stranded in a palace of bones.Now hush child, oh hush cold, come have something sweet,A...
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