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Weekly Contest #91
...It's a cold December night. Winter has just begun, and it will be long and snowy. Like every one in this hilly area where I grew up. Disease was advanced and my sister received me in his house. Long time, I have no one anymore except her. The pains are sometimes so strong that morphine makes it easy for just an hour or two, when I'm able to indulge more than rest. Anyway, I don't want to think of death, not yet. My thoughts are constantly coming back to everything I've seen, experienced and lived in these 53 years. Nothing I was sorry for...
Weekly Contest #90
With the progress of civilization, unfortunately, many bad things were inevitably done. We cannot attribute everything to a system of attempts and failures, because through history so many patterns are constantly repeated. What hurts me is the way people treat nature. Although I’m not really a naturalist type, I’m not blind. Now that I see sprouts starting to sprout in my jar from the grains I have sown, I marvel again and admire what is constantly happening in that same nature. And I am even more surprised, but also appalled that people a...
Weekly Contest #86
Zero still wonder where Jude was and what he is doing now. He knows exactly where he has made a mistake, but he is not sure if he would have done it differently now after two months. He tried, God witnessed him, took a cell phone several times to call or send the message, then he changed his mind and just dropped it down. What he could offer Jude at all? A boy from orphanage with traumas which has not yet cured. Bad boy LA Devil. A lost boy who did not know what love was. Then he would fall into bad days and do what he knew best. He slipped ...
Weekly Contest #72
For the third day in a row he hasn’t slept and is no longer sure what is true or is not. This case totally drove him crazy. All it started like any other murder. Two or three days of investigation, review of findings and mostly the culprit were brought to justice. This time it is total chaos, and he found himself in it by chance. The crime did not happen even in his district, but when he was on a replacement. Only, after everything started to get complicated, no one wanted to have anything to do with it. Tom drinks and he doesn't even know...
Weekly Contest #71
Grandma has always been such an inventive and interesting person. She made various decorations, sewed beautiful creations, cooked unusual dishes, and most of all baked cakes that were widely known. On the other hand, she was sometimes grumpy and melancholy, so as if out of spite, she did not want to share her secrets with anyone. It wasn't God knows what secrets, her world was really small. They meant a lot to her. Who then were we to oppose it. Grandma has always lived in her little world and waited for something to happen someday. In t...
Weekly Contest #70
I stand in front of her door again. A little autumn rain is falling, but I can't care less. I stand again, like who knows how many times. Maybe it’s finally time for me to stop. And so nothing matters anymore. He's gone. He will never return. No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to do anything… Like I used to hear a song… my life is a little masquerade… that might be the right description. I always hid. From everyone, even myself. I don't blame anyone, I can't even fight anymore, because I think more and more that every hour, m...
Weekly Contest #69
Peter lies in a semi-dark room, and the quiet music coming from the speakers slowly draws him into the world of Smetana's Vltava. Slightly bouncing water over the rocks on a quiet summer day. Clear blue water splashes greenery all around the river. The faint sun warms and softens every drop. Suddenly here and there a drop of rain, but it does not bother the course of the river that slowly goes on. The breeze, which has only been blowing so far, is slowly increasing and bending the blades of grass next to the water. For just a moment, every...
Weekly Contest #68
"Hey," Simon says softly to the boy who approaches him and kisses him on the mouth. "Hey," Alan replies after hugging him a little shyly. They hadn’t seen each other in a few days and Alan knows it wasn’t an accident. Their whole story had been mapped out from the beginning, and he used to think he was just imagining it, but now he’s sure of it. They grew up together, or rather they had known each other since they were aware of their existence. In that little alley, almost protected from the outside world, the two of them had known since t...
Weekly Contest #67
Of all the stupid things he had done in his life, this one seemed like the worst at the moment. Well, well, this time he didn't make it. He just found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It wasn't his first time either, but this time the thing was stuck in his mind and he couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he tried. Sometimes he would forget for a while, and then the whole stupid situation would fall on him again. He didn't even know why, so it wasn't like that was his problem. Still, he knew very well what was right and w...
Weekly Contest #66
We have all learned at least once that life is not fair. Well, that means we grow up day in and day out. Not everything always depends on us, in fact, so many times we are completely powerless. Maria has been through this more than a few times. From an early age, life was not fair to her. To put it mildly. The mother left her as soon as she was born, and the father would show up occasionally, only stirring up her very unhappy childhood. As an unwanted child, she struggled from orphanage to orphanage, from one foster family to another, whic...
Weekly Contest #65
Roman can't remember how many times he moves. It bothered him a little already. That wasn't what you'd think. No, he just didn't get along very well with people. Oddly enough, he nodded bitterly, considering he was the only werewolf in the area. At least as far as he knew. He didn’t attack people, even during a full moon. He hadn't needed a long time. Especially because he was a butcher. Why would he hunt, when his suppliers are bringing everything literally at his feet? He did not forget those old years when he experienced his first tra...
Weekly Contest #64
I was always amused by the fact that people are afraid of ghosts. And yet, they don’t know everything I know, so I tend to forgive them for some stupid conclusions and even stupider behavior. I’m a little lonely these days, maybe that’s why I think about people so much. I can say that I even miss all those days when the castle was inhabited. And I really am a lot of years old. Well, actually, technically I’m still eighteen, but also all these 312 years since I'm officially died. Somehow I already have a faint memory of my real life before ...
Weekly Contest #63
I’m Klepetan and you may have never heard of me, it doesn’t even matter, now I’m going to tell you my story. I am a stork and I do not bring children as many people say, I just live an ordinary family life. Like so many other storks. Maybe now is the time to hear what I want to tell you, because I’m pretty old. Just last year I thought it was over, but here it wasn’t so I got another chance to get back to my nest. But this whole story of mine would make no sense if there was no Malena. Now you wonder who she is? She is my whole world. St...
Weekly Contest #62
The idea of storing something in a time capsule at this point seemed like something almost like healing? After all the shit that has happened to Alice lately, these thoughts have caught on like a straw to a drowned man, or to a woman, these are just details. She will put aside his failed relationship full of misunderstandings and lack of any empathy on Tim’s part. Especially the last few years. She will also leave his bad relationship with his family. It will leave, at least for a moment, that bad feeling in her stomach that she has ever...
Weekly Contest #61
Why did I always think things like this were happening to someone else? In fact, we all always think that, don’t we? But to be honest I never even thought of such a thing until that chilly spring day. And yet, they were not so long ago, today I am only twenty years older. Yes, it just seems like centuries have passed or I don’t even know which unit of measurement to use. I was coming back from school, as well as so many of these same days, full of youthful dreams and some, I would call them today, foolish hopes. And even if this didn't h...
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