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Weekly Contest #287
CW: Contains themes of loss and griefDo you remember? The summer heat, the blazing curiosity, and the iced tea that you somehow messed up? You were an American foreign exchange student, which meant you didn’t know how to make tea, therefore didn’t know how to make iced tea, so you panicked and dumped four tea bags into a tea cup with icy water? I remember your red face when I exposed the weird flavour and your warm, fumbling hands as you went to take the tea away from me, which ultimately spilled onto my dress. You were acting like a chicken...
Weekly Contest #286
My name is Adon Habafren. And whoever created the idea of birds singing in the tranquil morning has clearly never met the Cuadro quadruplets. By 9:01 in the morning, my classroom resembled a monkey exhibit– but the monkeys were on sugar and caffeine. And I was the underpaid zookeeper. “Mr. Stoneface! What’s the equation for Newton’s Second Law? I forgot it again.” As Cuadro One, the loudest Cuadro with a missing front tooth, scratched his head as monkeys do, I sighed. Mornings like these remind me why I hate my life. Once upon a time, ...
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