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Submitted to Contest #99
Hope. That is what I felt as I watched the sunrise. It wasn’t a lot and sometimes it was barely enough to keep me going, but it was enough to keep the fear of the inevitable at bay. I enjoyed the sunrise and looked forward to it every day. Staying up until the crack of dawn and steadying my breath as I watched the sunlight fill the sky was routine. It promised you a new day full of trivial excitements and endless possibilities. Watching the sunset was completely different. It was like watching all the newfound hope diminish as the air turned...
Submitted to Contest #98
Dear Diary Journal. My name is Darius and I am incredibly and irrevocably unlucky. I can’t even deny it anymore. At this point it is just a fact. I don’t even know how it happened. Maybe it was the ladder I walked under, or the umbrella I opened inside. Or quite possibly the evil witch who cursed me to 7 years of bad luck. How ironic. Whatever it was, it was most certainly not my black cat. My black cat who I would never get rid of. My anti-Snow White, feline of the night, Garfield of a cat. My Precious Pookie. She meow...
Everything was dark. Flashes of memory ran through my mind as I walked through the ill-lit forest, not bothering to dodge the mass of trees and branches, I had no destination in mind. I was dizzy and disoriented. Despite the darkness, I could see everything clearly. It was like night vision, but more natural. I reached a clearing. The moon shone aloft and in the middle of it was a tree stump. There was something eerie about this location. The tree stump had been the only one cut down and I had an uncanny feeling that it had been done many mo...
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