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Weekly Contest #206
The gas station smells of cigarettes and coffee. Meg walks through the aisles, unsure of what she wanted, but certain that she needed to put something in her body soon. It was nearing mid-afternoon, and a sleeve of Ritz crackers for breakfast can only sustain a person for so long. She settles for a bag of pretzels and a bottle of lemonade. The condensation on the glass is a wonderfully cool distraction, and she’s suddenly so thirsty she just wants to down the whole thing and cry it back out. “$6.36,” says the cashier. His plastic n...
Weekly Contest #205
The morning dew dapples the dandelions with water droplets. She plucks each one from the ground—carefully, so the roots stay attached—and wipes each flower on the hem of her shirt, stowing them in the basket until its grassy bottom couldn’t be seen anymore. Eodalin chirps and wraps his limbs around her arm until she satiates him with a flower, letting him gnaw on the florets. “Is this enough?” The creature clicks his tongue. Yes. At the cottage, she uses a dagger to separate the dandelions into parts, into sections of roots, leav...
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