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Weekly Contest #78
It hit me in the garage that night. Stu was working on Big Red, whose hood was propped up, its bed stuffed with barrels of trash to be taken in. Stu was staring at the engine like he sometimes looked down at the pasta pot when the water hadn’t boiled yet. “Hey,” I said after a minute. He reached for a wrench on a nearby motorcycle seat. “Babe?” He turned his head, the reddish beard fringed around his jaw flecked with dust. “You coming in so we can talk about it?” Stu walked around to the other side of the engine, which was partl...
Weekly Contest #77
Mardi was looking out at the snow accumulating in the drive, fluffy flakes and then heavy, almost sleeting. Her upper lip curled as the wet flakes hit the ground. The driveway was almost covered. She’d have to call the man to shovel if it got deep and then they’d have to wait and not get out until past noon, which meant she’d have to make lunch and probably put a load of laundry in….. Spiraling and fluttering like punch drunk teenagers, here came the snow! Another winter, another white landscape to navigate. The TV changed channels, inte...
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