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Weekly Contest #378
It was a dark and stormy night… Except, of course, it wasn't! It was a glorious Italian summer evening, the sort that stays with you long after the sun has set and the years have carried away almost all of the details. I was nineteen, hopelessly romantic, and having the time of my life. And forty years later, I can still remember that sound. But I'm getting ahead of myself. ✦ ✦ ✦ It was the summer of 1986, my second summer working in Italy. I had been invited to spend several weeks working for a successful engineering company in Bologna. My...
Weekly Contest #363
The sea had been in one of her generous moods all afternoon. Sunlight scattered across the water in countless fragments, each wave lifting a handful of bright sparkles before tossing them aside. Far below the cliff, the tide murmured against the rocks with the slow assurance of something that had done so long before people came to name the headlands, cut paths through the turf or build houses where the land met the sky. Cameron sat with his knees drawn up and his forearms resting loosely upon them. The grass was warm beneath him, though the ...
Weekly Contest #321
Chapter One – The Crowded Sky The sky had always been crowded. Not with clouds or storms but with moons - half a dozen of them, silver and blue and copper, glowing softly above the planet like patient lanterns. The largest, the golden moon with its shining plateau, carried a colony of miners and dreamers. The others drifted in measured orbits, serene as pearls on invisible strings. Fred adjusted the eyepiece of the Grand Array telescope, his hands steady despite the late hour. The brass fittings hummed faintly as he tuned them, aligning the ...
Weekly Contest #320
Adventure at Our Age? Bill steadied himself against a pine trunk and exhaled. His knees always protested on the inclines now, though he tried not to let June see. She was a hawk for weakness, had been ever since they’d met in their twenties at a walking club. “You all right?” she called back, not even winded, her silver hair bright in the morning sun. “Fine,” he said. “Just enjoying the view.” The view was, admittedly, worth the pause. The lake below them was a mirror, so still that the mountains above looked like they were growing straight ...
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