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Weekly Contest #364
For years — going back to my academy days — I had heard stories about the forensic sketch artist whose drawings came to life. Elusive murderers, robbers, rapists finally caught because this woman’s supposed ability to gather the blurry fragments of traumatic memories and make them clear and whole. The first time I heard about her was shortly before my graduation, during drinks with Tommy at the Tank. Tommy was a buddy from my ROTC days, and he had been in the force for a few years already. Listen, he said, hushed over pints, so close I could...
Weekly Contest #358
I have been trying to grow my own herbs, but they keep dying. Everyone says it’s so easy to grow herbs, but not for me. Sometimes they make it for a little while, tiny leaves reaching for the sky, but soon they dry out and fold over, exasperated by their short lives. I’ve tried everything, I’ve read everything. All the books and the blogs and the apps. I tried different climates, different soils. But nothing works, as if they are insisting not to live. It all started because I went to a friend’s house upstate, and was intoxicated by the smel...
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