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Weekly Contest #376
The thick fog hanging lower over the ocean clung to its torn robes as the Wraith glided over the still black water. The icy air flowed through the creature, neither noticing the other. It moved without thought, unburdened by wants, only a need that lay deep below the surface. The wailing souls rotting for eternity, strewn about the ocean floor. As the moon crested above, it cast the wraith in aching light, the scent of something odd, some fresh torment, distracted the cloaked figure. The black outline of the ship hung on the horizon. The sai...
Weekly Contest #375
Sweat poured over the malnourished man, clinging to the oversized canvas coveralls, as the bell tolled through the night sky for the twelfth time. The humid air lent little to ease his ragged breaths. The church cast the graveyard into heavy darkness as the moon sat low behind it. His skin hung from his bones, the tendons and ligaments pulled tight as he worked. His crazed eyes burned as he sank his shovel back into the ground. Water splashed against the sea wall a few hundred yards away, and wood creaked as the ships scraped against the doc...
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