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Submitted to Contest #336
Izzy looked at her phone and realized with a start that it was 7:51pm. Gathering her books, she threw them into her backpack and headed for the library door. Doing a quick calculation in her head, she panicked – the last bus of the evening would arrive at 8:02, and given she was a quarter mile away it would be very, very tight. Izzy burst through the library doors into a wet Seattle evening as the smell of rain on asphalt greeted her senses. Though nearly frantic at this point, she gave the slightest hint of a smile at the scent, which alway...
Submitted to Contest #335
The first snow of winter falls softly against the outer cabin walls, a feeling I’ve come to recognize with both comfort and a touch of uneasiness that feels almost unnatural. Inside, the air smells of old pine and cold ash, and I move through the now darkened room by memory alone - building a fire, taking inventory of my supplies and listening to the forest settle into silence. Through the window, the dusk blurs the trees together into shades of grey, as if the world has decided simply to pause as it waits for something inevitable. I chose t...
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