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Weekly Contest #303
There was a sparrow, seated on the tree branch above me, the morning I gave her away. It watched with its black, beady eyes, judging, never blinking, as I hung the laundry on the line. Strangely, its presence caressed me when I heard her quiet, stifled crying escaping from her bedroom window."I can’t do anything,” I said to the sparrow, the breeze blowing the fabrics softly against my hands. It did not answer, only continued to stare, daring me to argue. I knew better not to.We, the sparrow, and I, were outside for a long while that morning,...
Weekly Contest #272
It is through the whims of those surrounding us that we become prey to our greatest fears. The greatest fear of her life was to never move on, to always be stagnant, never moving forward or getting better. Perhaps it was fate itself that let her succumb to the whims of others, and fall to rest upon her greatest fear. She’d been a slight veil in the world for a long period now. She was on the bridge between life and death, the in-between that she’d been so afraid of for all of her mortal life. Beyond the veil al...
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