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Weekly Contest #366
There are many ways you can punish yourself to win the favour of God. The Anchorites withdraw to caves and cells under churches and rock on their heels in the dark. On Mount Athos men gather, black robed and silver bearded, in a monastery that threatens to spill from the cliffs into the sea. Some prostrate, some flagellate, some raise limbs to the sky until they wither. We have each settled on our own tastes in abstinence and poverty. We are each keeping a secret book on who is suffering the most. My method is that I stand on a pillar and st...
Weekly Contest #278
The tour has been cut short and rumours run that the money is gone. Some say the sword swallower cleaved off the promoter’s ear as collateral, that he is wearing it about his neck on a string. Down their shivering flanks the lions’ ribs are showing. The tamers know that soon the beasts will turn. Pavel leaves the horse on the outskirts of the camp. All the way to the Big Top, the winter mire sucks at his boots. He asks the clowns. “I am looking for my brother, Pyotr, The Ringmaster.” The mime hocks and spits on the name. He peels up a corn...
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