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Weekly Contest #346
“McGraw…” Miles whispered as he ruminated on the meaning of his own surname. “I wonder what that would mean to anyone else if I asked them.” He leaned back in one of three lawn chairs that he and two of his friends had set up on the roof of his apartment building four years ago. He sat in the third chair from the door—the one all the way at the end separated from the other two chairs by a small ceramic table that, not two summers ago, Thomas had won from a particularly good day of haggling with old department store owners. Thomas’s seat was...
Weekly Contest #128
I maneuver my way around the countertop, scouring its marble surface for a very basic thing, a form of tea. I stop and turn, almost knocking over a dish rack and busting all of the plates and cups suspended and drying. I panic and dash forwards and catch the collapsing rack. It’s around five o’clock in the morning and, to clarify, I am not a morning person. And so this, this half asleep, confused, and groggy state; it’s normal for me this early in the morning. But then again, that's only because I haven’t had my tea yet. Some prefer the ugly...
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