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Submitted to Contest #295
False Farewell Hayes, Virginia…wow, it’s been a while since I’d been home. Too damn long, if you ask me. What brought me back? A funeral. Well, a supposed funeral for my Uncle Nate. Now, my uncle…he’s an oddball. Loveable, but an oddball. When he’s had enough of the world, he disappears for a few days. Just a few days, that’s all. But this time, he’d been gone longer. Alisha, his girlfriend, became worried. She must have thought the worst had happened. I don’t know the full story, though. So, I packed a weekend bag and headed up I-64 on a Fr...
Submitted to Contest #294
The damp, salt-laced air of Gloucester clung to me like a second skin, or maybe more like a shroud. It was the year 2021. The whole world was playing dress-up, masks and hand sanitizer everywhere. Honestly, it was a riot. Like, they were already living in a digital haze, glued to their screens, but now? Now they were terrified of each other, huddled in their little boxes. It was like a free pass for me. They called it a pandemic; I called it the perfect cover. A buffet, sure, but a buffet where everyone was already hiding under the table. No...
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