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Weekly Contest #343
The sky sagged over the narrow West Virginia hollow like a sheet of wet slate dragged too low, heavy enough to bruise the lungs before the rock ever struck. In this forgotten coal town—squeezed between soft, rounded ridges where the black seams ran under every clapboard house, every crooked fence post, every tilted stone in the graveyard up on the rise—the air never lost its iron tang, its coal-dust grit, its faint sulfur aftertaste from the tipple fires that never quite went out. Tonight the fear sharpened it all into something metallic and...
Weekly Contest #342
Vance Caldwell noticed Timothy Hargrove on the third Tuesday of September 1987, in Room 214 of Jefferson High School. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead like trapped insects while Mr. Delaney droned about molarity. Timothy had arrived two weeks late, a transfer from Pittsburgh, carrying a battered canvas backpack and an air of calm indifference that made the usual cliques uneasy. His dark curls brushed the collar of a faded plaid shirt, and thin wire-rimmed glasses slid slightly down his nose when he bent over his notebook. Vance, slouch...
Weekly Contest #341
CW: Physical violence, gore or abuse, substance abuse Morris Whitaker turned ninety-one on a Tuesday in late November, when the maple outside his kitchen window burned the most violent shade of red he had ever seen it wear. The leaves looked almost wet with color, as though the tree had been dipped in blood and left to dry in the sun. He marked the day the same way he had for decades: black coffee poured into the same chipped white mug Ellen had bought at a church bazaar in 1982, two pieces of dry toast spread with nothing but memory, and si...
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