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Weekly Contest #292
this story mentions or implies depression, agoraphobia, and dissociation. read consciously I’m rushing to work again, and I know I shouldn’t.I pick up my jacket, its pilling fabric trailing along the pavement - my scarf, once blue, wrapping itself possessively around my throat and mouth, I obstruct half my vision just so I might try not to catch a cold. I remember this time of year as already quite white. The snow, the fluffy polar coats mothers adorn their children with, the sea birds that haven’t quite figured out they should’ve flown sou...
Weekly Contest #161
The setting sun reminded me to sit to rest, and I let myself collapse onto a nearby curb. I’d nearly forgotten what I was walking for, my feet blistered, having memorised the long path home so that I didn’t have to myself.I pulled a chain from my inside jacket pocket, the metal locket at its end smooth and cold against my hand, hooked onto a piece of loose thread so that I had to pause to tug it free. Absentmindedly, just while I sat and let myself breathe, I thumbed the curve of the locket’s surface; a self soothing motion I supposed.I put ...
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