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Weekly Contest #359
I wait for the perfect moment to enter. I have dressed with more care than usual for this and catch my reflection in the polished glass as I stand outside the door. My thick golden locks are swept neatly into a high bun, adorned with a pearl comb. I push an errant curl into place and smile with satisfaction at the image which smiles back. I want this to be the performance of a lifetime. I can see my husband already sitting at the table through the restaurant’s large paned front window. He looks the part of a smug, money-born business tycoon....
Weekly Contest #351
My mother is gone. As I sit beside her lifeless, but not-yet cold body on the third floor of St. John’s General in these first few minutes of her death, all I feel is my own life energy. My heart is thumping loudly, pulsing in my neck and throbbing in my head. Perhaps these are the effects of too much caffeine and a sleepless night, but still. My vibrancy overpowers everything in the room. The chair, rolling table, life-monitoring machines are immobile and silent, and my mother’s body now joins them, her liveliness of a few moments before re...
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