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Submitted to Contest #37
In the derelict depths of Donegal, Callum was tucking into his mother’s coffee liquor. She had left abruptly. So he decided to invite his old friends from university for the weekend. The house was classically falling apart. A bit too empty and a bit too beige. He looked around at these boys, not men, boys. Everyone around this table fell into the same roles as they did 5 years ago. Hector, with a farmers, squalid shirt hanging off him and ripped shorts, still revelling in his own brutish banter. Will, smiling with his nicotine-stained teeth,...
Submitted to Contest #35
I expect Hera and Zeus are making love upon Mount Olympus enveloped in a pink pallet on the sky. Or perhaps Aphrodite and Ares, whilst Hephaistos waits reeking wrath. My mind wanders from my toes to my stomach up to my neck. How can he make me feel so small? I am Lucy Longcroft for god’s sake! Illustriously bold and self-assured. And yet the unique traits that used to define me, like running 10 miles in a skirt and laughing for no particular reason, have been subdued by him. I emerge out of the woods and meadows and see deer...
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