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Submitted to Contest #171
‘I never thought we’d get here, you know.’ He looks straight ahead as he says it, his bright blue eyes shining with tears, though he’d never admit it if I called him on it. ‘Me neither.’ I lean my head on his shoulder, the only manly part of a body otherwise stuck in skinny adolescence. ‘God, I feel so grown up. A whole two years married! Some couples don’t last that long, you know, Sam. It takes real work. I mean, if you knew the amount of self control it’s taken for me to hold back the urge to kill you all this tim...
Submitted to Contest #170
The figure was just visible through the darkness. Josie watched, breath bated, as it moved slowly, meticulously, through the garden and towards the house. She perched on the kitchen side in the pitch black, eyes wide, like a cat guarding the house. Any light would only make her a target. What did it want? They didn’t have much worth taking, though there was plenty of Paul’s stuff she wouldn’t mind being stolen… But didn’t burglars normally work in groups? Yes, she was sure this figure was after something far worse. Her heartbeat increased. S...
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