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Submitted to Contest #47
You check the time. Perfect. As intended, you’ve arrived fashionably late. Fourteen minutes and forty-three seconds is the pinnacle of being fashionably late according to your observations. It’s enough that people notice you aren’t there, but close enough to be reasonable still. Of course, this is just because you hate these types of parties, these smile and talk about banal nonsense to blurred faces of people who only know what they want to know about you, parties. Garbage. Garbage, garbage, garbage, you think with each smile and in...
Submitted to Contest #41
It’s never good when you see a trickster like a coyote. Because by the time you’ve seen them, they’ve been there for some time, waiting, watching, planning, using that wily mind to figure you out, before you even know they exist. I had been walking down some slow empty highway for a couple of hours, somewhere north of Albuquerque, where exactly I’m not sure, when I first saw the coyote. He was a big one, probably over 50 pounds, missing half his left ear, and with a tail that looked like it had lost some length as well. The sun was just...
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