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Quilum Jay

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Auburn Sarah

When the leaves on the trees around the family home turned pink, at the beginning of Spring, it was the reminder for my mother that another year passed, without her knowing what had happened to her daughter. This continued for years, every Spring, ever since we as a family had been torn apart by an event 30 years ago. The mysterious disappearance of my sister at the age of 17. I grew up in a big household. I am the oldest. I have two younger sisters Deliah and Sarah. Then my youngest sibling Neville. He was a little slow, and behind for his...

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Frederick Steele's Last Case

Weekly Contest #350

Photos of Detective Chief Inspector Frederick Steele sit on his home office wall. There are newspaper clippings of successful cases, headlines like “Steele Resolve, Beats the Bandits,” and “Interrogation of Steele Breaks Open the Case.”Frederick Steele, his face wrinkled, was wearied by 25 years in the job. A bottle of un-opened champagne sat on his home office desk. A celebratory bottle for his retirement. Sitting back in his chair, Frederick felt he could turn his attention to other things now. Like his glucose levels. He is already type 1...

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The Child Underwater

Weekly Contest #348

It is just after midday on the main street of the town where Cassie and Ethan now live together. They turn into Nguyen’s Corner, established in 1979. This place has become a new favourite restaurant of theirs. Cassie and Ethan join a queue to get some takeaway food.“Extra patè again is it? And you don’t like it spicy,” says one of the restaurant owners preparing their Bahn Mi orders.“Yes."The crackle of an old radio is on, just loud enough to be heard above the murmur of conversation around them. A reporter is talking.“With America entering ...

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Suburban Riot

Weekly Contest #342

CW: Brief sexually inappropriate content I am sitting at the classroom table. Chris my friend is next to me.“Check this out,” Chris says. He hands me his phone and I see photos of the school formal from last weekend. In one of the photos Chris is standing beside a few girls, with his hands on his hips. He is wearing a suit jacket but is otherwise shirtless underneath.“Nice look you got going there,” I say.“Yeah, girls like it.”Looking at Chris’s photos of people from school, I see Audrey in one of them. She’s with her friends. My first thoug...

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The Child in Lilac

Weekly Contest #341

“Ahh,” Ethan wakes, peering around the room, it’s dark. “Mom!” The night is silent and still. Just the sound of his ticking clock on the wall. He looks out his open window at the stars in the sky. He pushes down his Where’s Waldo duvet. Ethan’s mother rushes into the bedroom. “Had a bad dream sweetie?” Ethan nods. “Are you ok? Your doctor said it is to be expected.” His mother is beside his bed, turning the bedroom lamp on. “What happened in your dream?” she asks Ethan. “I saw a girl on a road. She looked so sad.” “And then what happene...

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