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Submitted to Contest #292
I wake this morning to my colorless life yet again. Shrewd in shades of black and white and gray, I find a certain dullness to my life that I didn’t feel was present recently. I’ve done everything to fulfill my life: marry a good man, give birth to two beautiful children, and spend my days writing when I’m not taking care of the house. My life is nuclear and unchanging. And I love it. But today, today is a different story. My life has always been colorless, it has never been quite like this. The walls are now staring at me, begging me to tea...
Submitted to Contest #291
The darkness in which I lay is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got there or what to do. I look and look around me, but all I see is the kind of black you could only imagine. It is so dark and serene, one would only think that there would be a glimmer or a reflection, but it is just pure nothingness. I can’t even tell if I am standing or floating. I don’t know where is up or where is down, where is north, south, east, or west. Suddenly, I feel a light breeze brush upon my skin from behind. I close my eyes and think about what I love. When I op...
Submitted to Contest #240
I am a boat. I am sailing. I am small. I am gone, floating away. The sea is my mother, the wind my father, the waves my sisters and brothers. I am a boat. I am sailing. I am small. I am gone. My father seems angry. He’s rustling and bustling and hustling, making my brothers rustle and bustle and hustle too. My sisters stay calm. My mother accepts all my father gives to her, calm, angry, whatever he gives she takes. I like to think it’s so he doesn't affect me or my siblings, but nothing could stop my father for he is angry. And I’m thr...
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