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Weekly Contest #341
This story contains sensitive content of mental health and substance abuse and death. He was mad. And I mean that in a clinical sense—schizophrenia. For me it was like watching a person who was not just broken, but entirely fractured and splintered inside. Madness crept in gradually and terrifyingly—removing the man I called “dad” and replacing him with someone else entirely. He loved to read, and he loved to walk. He loved to discuss metaphysics and the mysterious, myths and legends, and to visit museums. He had the most wonderful storyte...
Weekly Contest #339
The low hum of the kettle plays its morning song. It gently breaks the peace of night as everything begins to rouse from its peaceful slumber. I always want to hold onto the night, its cosy warmth, its silence, its beauty; disturbing it feels like a crime. So I break it slowly. First the kettle plays its mild introduction, followed by the teaspoons and their twinkling percussion. The broken tranquility of the evening and night is paid for in coffee. For some, coffee is the highlight of their morning, given over from warm hands and with a...
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