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Weekly Contest #137
Dying hearts Mark stared at the newspaper before him and reread the news clipping again. He was stone-still and felt numb to the bone. There was no denying the words written in front of him, no matter how many times they flew through his mind. His dark brown eyes began to rain upon his cheeks falling like whispers. His heart ripping into shreds quickly bleeding out. The blood bloomed on his shirt starting to stream down like rapid waters from his pants, spilling onto the cracks of the checkered tile floor of the cafe. The brazen words moc...
Flames Without Regrets She stood still at the kitchen counter feeling completely numb. “Why the hell are you like this,” he had screamed at her for what seemed the millionth time over. Each day everything went wrong like acid trickling upon their life. The stench of his three-day-old clothes saturated the kitchen as he walked down heading to work. When she recommended changing them, his eyes only bored hatefully into hers. Then he asked sweetly for her to make him something to eat. “Really? Jeckel and Hyde, here we go!” she thought. “No,...
Weekly Contest #134
Two Suns Away Ten years...how could ten years go by in a flash? Laura held a yellow umbrella above her as she stood waiting outside the restaurant door as violet rain fell freely from the sky. She thought about how she had lost him and then been so lucky to have him back again. Her mind wandered back to the beginning. Ten years ago, she had been surrounded by her family as they all huddled together. Laura had gripped her father’s hand winding their gloves tightly together as her grandparents’ sad sunken eyes filled with tears that slid do...
Fairytale Romance Present Day Jessica sat in the corner of a bustling coffee shop, sipping her delicious latte while people watching. She had learned the hard way to cherish these moments of peace. As I watched another couple holding hands, my mind drifted back to the beginning of my own fairy tale romance or so had I thought. As a matter of fact, it all started here. Six Months Ago Jessica had been enjoying her lunch at this same coffee shop. Looked him and lost herself in her romance novel again. It wasn’t until he spoke that she realiz...
Weekly Contest #132
“Why now?” Sandy thought. What was the point of doing this now? She thought of all her friends, knowing she would never see them again. Her frustration grew until she wanted to scream and throw something, anything around her. “How would that change things?” she thought in protest. The decision had been made and there was nothing she could change it. Her bedroom walls were a pale yellow, which always cheered her up until now. Now they seemed to taunt her, “You’re leaving us forever.” Her walk-in closet screamed, “You’re taking everything w...
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