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Weekly Contest #73
The old woman lay awake in bed, staring at dawn’s first light dancing across the ceiling. She had spent most of the night trapped somewhere between reality and a dream, between a cold bed and her dead husband’s warm embrace. She blinked, expecting tears at the thought of him. There were none. Her husband died suddenly the previous day. Heart attack, on Christmas Eve. For the first time in 58 years, she was alone in their bed. She turned her head to where her husband would no...
Weekly Contest #72
2065. That’s the year I was born. I’m actually able to remember it. Birth, that is. I recall a flash of blue-white light, like a lightning bolt, followed immediately by darkness and an incessant stream of voices. Despite my blindness, I was a quick learner, mastering the art of language in a few short months. Speech was fun, kind of like a secret code that everyone knows. The problem was, I never had the opportunity to test out that code with anyone else. I learned to speak from recordings of voices, not from people themselves. Nonetheless,...
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