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Submitted to Contest #303
Asha had never been afraid of the dark. When the other children at the orphanage she’d lived in the first eleven years of her life had cried out in the middle of the night claiming a monstrous umbrabeast lurked under their beds, she had always remained calm; after all, she could see the otherwise invisible creatures of the Shadow when no one else could, so she had known there were nothing but dust bunnies—and maybe hungry mice—hidden in the darkness beneath them. No, to Asha, the dark was tranquil and warm. It felt like home in a way that no...
Submitted to Contest #302
Nathan cursed his bad luck as the sky all too quickly began to darken, the setting sun mocking him as it raced ever closer to the horizon behind him with land but a tantalizing few miles away. His old sailboat, once his pride and joy before the world went to hell but now as worn and weary as he was, would not get to dock until morning; one more night of hunger would not kill him, but going ashore after nightfall most certainly would. He could already hear the screeches of the Others echoing from land, piercing the air so sharply as to reach ...
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