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Submitted to Contest #119
Furtive eyes searched the entrance to the distant black alley. Sure of total solitude the dark figure darted across the street to the welcome maw of it’s shadows. Quietly the hunched form of a man moved deeper into the darkness. After a short while he slowed his pace and listened to te noises around him. A silence broken only by an occasional drip of water from some unseen pipe or the scurrying of the padded feet of one of the rats in the darkness. A noise he ...
Submitted to Contest #118
Rebirth,….? He fired another shot into the ceiling as the last of the bank patrons dropped to the floor. Some were cursing under their breaths and others were crying and some were hysterical as the gunman nervously made his way from one teller to the other. “IN THE BAG!” He yelled as he held it up in front of each frightened teller. As the gunman moved he waved the gun into their faces to hurry them along. At the last of the tellers he took the bag by both handles with the gun still in one ...
Submitted to Contest #101
That time of morning was always the hardest. Those few minutes between getting up and having that first cup of coffee in his hands. Those few minutes when he didn’t have to hear the incessant screeching of her voice. The only time of the day there’d be peace and quiet under his own roof. “What a wonderful flavor coffee has in the morning,” Jim thought savoring the coffee, “peace and quiet,… if only,..” “Okay, are we going to Casey’s party or not?” The voice of his wife echoed,...
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