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Weekly Contest #359
The door slammed before I made it down the stairs. Why? I thought I heard your keys jangling. Your heels against the floorboards. But I didn't think you were serious. I didn't think you'd leave.We were out in the cold this morning. That winter darkness before the sun comes up. My feet were freezing against the moonlit tarmac! But you didn't seem sad. You had your lovely smile on. Your breath blowing into the wind, ear to ear.So why leave now?What am I to do? I'm here crying face down into the shag carpet. You've looked after me all this time...
Weekly Contest #358
Nobody believed in me. That was their first mistake. A sheer drop. A sheer bleedin' drop. Some place to sleep. The ocean swirls in me ears like foam pressed through me teeth. I can hear the bubbles sizzling on the surface below. A barge of black clouds sits on the horizon like glacial mountains. I'm in fucking Howth I bet. Why's it every time I get out of me head I end up like a drowned rat on a cliff somewhere? My hands are caked with muck. My hangnails and popped blisters are basically scabbed over with the dirt, but they sting all the sam...
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