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Weekly Contest #66
It was a dark winter night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening. There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations. Among other things they had talked of capital punishment. The majority of the guests, among whom were many journalists and intellectual men, disapproved of the death penalty. They considered that form of punishment out of date, immoral, and unsuitable for Christian States. In the opinion of some of t...
Weekly Contest #65
Over 40 years ago, Anne and her friend were having a peaceful and enjoyable Halloween night — until the unexplained moaning and laughing began. Four decades later, Anne can recall that night of terror as if it happened yesterday. Ghosts and Supernatural Creatures Some people believe that October 31st, Halloween , is a time when the space that separates our reality from the dimension of ghosts and the supernatural is at its thinnest. That is why this time of year is given to the obsession and experience with spirits, haunting, unnatural creat...
Weekly Contest #63
It’s a Monday afternoon. She is sitting in a lone coffee shop. It’s her down time in between classes, and she chose to subway downtown and focus on the paper that could make or break her college degree. She hears him before she sees him. The door opens. The tiny bell hung above it rings, signaling his presence. She looks up from her cappuccino and laptop at the noise and the burst of cold air coming through. She freezes and stops her work, almost spilling her drink all over her in the process. He hasn’t changed a bit. He takes off his black ...
Weekly Contest #61
The short story is set in a circuit house (a dark bungalow generally used by senior government officers for short stays). It is situated in Bundi, a small town in Rajasthan . Two visitors, the author Shankar and his childhood friend Jaidev have come to explore Bundi, and are put up in the guest house. Jaidev works in a newspaper office and the author teaches in a school. After so many misses, they have managed to get a time slot when they could go out on a journey together. They are having tea in the circuit house. Jaidev appears lost in s...
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