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Weekly Contest #49
The pen scratches across the rough paper, her hands shake as she writes rushed and barely readable words. Her words have splotches of blood on them, blood from her battered and bruised hands, she doesn’t mind the pain though, she’s learnt to live with it, to make it a part of her herself. Finally she sets the pen down and stares at her hands, they’re blue and red, red from the blood and blue from the ink. Slowly she looks at the rest of her arms, she hasn’t looked at herself in over six months because she already knows what she’ll see; bony ...
Weekly Contest #46
Chapter One The airport felt hot and stuffy with all the bodies rushing about, in a hurry to get home. It was understandable, though, with the Christmas festivities and all. I breathed in slowly, instantly regretting it when the smell of sweat and about a thousand different perfumes hit me. “I’m sorry,” a young lady bumped into me, she barely registered me as she continued her run-walk. I started towards the exit, Olive had apparently been too busy to pick me up, so I had to get a taxi to take me to the house. One stopped a few ...
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