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Weekly Contest #367
Paul Cade Departure Today I decided not to get out of bed, tomorrow would be hell I knew, but that did not invigorate me. The day rolled by, I could hear it through my cracked window set in the wall above my bed. I heard a leaf blower screaming at the grass, a garbage truck went by, hissing like a dragon with every stop, and planes beyond count rumbled overhead uncaringly. The clangor served only to remind me of what I was missing, and what was coming, but it did not reverse my apathy. Only once the noise of the day died down, when the sun d...
Weekly Contest #325
Fred was always a talkative sort. Ever since his first word, “me.” When that was the only word he knew, he chirped and burbled over and over, “me, me, me, me, me.” His Mother would parrot back at him, “you, you, you, you, you,”as she fed him squashed cream and corn. He didn’t remember of course, being barely a toddler at the time, but his Mother had told him plenty of times. She seemed to run out of things to say a lot, always repeating the same stories, and fancies, and fears. Fred didn’t mind so long as she talked, some people refused to s...
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