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Weekly Contest #354
It has been snowing for two days without pause, and the city has come to resemble the one buried in my childhood memory. The rooftops are blanketed just as they were years ago, when I would greet nearly every falling snowflake with applause — the only difference being that I am no longer that small boy, clutching a sled with both hands and racing toward the steepest hill, so I could come flying down it with flushed cheeks.Now I stand at the window, watching the city dressed in white, holding myself back from going out — because in my arms I ...
Weekly Contest #353
It shook its branches — scattering sparrow feathers and faintly yellowed leaves — and pressed its roots deeper into the earth, searching for pockets of moisture. Its crown, warmed by the morning sun, rustled its thick leaves in a slow attempt to find relief. It had still been a young, healthy sapling when they brought it to this meadow stripped of all other trees (it cannot remember who, or why), and since then, having aged too soon, its temperament had grown heavy. Sunlight no longer pleased it, and the chirping of birds grated on its nerve...
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