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Weekly Contest #69
Everyone thinks their family is weird, and every family has its secrets. Oftentimes, they’re pretty mundane. Affairs and addictions are common, but they still demand a hushed accusatory tone with every passing mention. Even when every family’s got the same secrets, we like to pretend we’re unique, that our shame is independent of the larger system, that it’s our duty to sweep the damning evidence into the basement and pretend that we are normal, functioning, sane. I went to college in a city up north, and that didn’t bode well with my fami...
Weekly Contest #66
It is a considerable privilege to be invited to the Carnival of Dreams, they say. The ticket is never postmarked, never granted with a return address. Those who ignore the ticket may find it in places where it is most visible: curled around a toothbrush, folded in a wallet, crushed within a sleeping fist. Disposing of the ticket is not possible, either; it always finds a way back home. For adventurers, the ticket is often heralded as a blessing and a challenge. There are prizes beyond compare, they say, riches and glory and whatever else y...
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