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Submitted to Contest #311
Two candle flames shimmer with desperation as an unwelcome draft eases them away. Any atmosphere present in this now darkened dining room is fizzling out of sight, like the life evacuating from a punctured inflatable. Gus reaches over the table with his shabby lighter to revive the romantic life support. Gus’ thumb grows more numb by the second, as the spark of ignition dissipates before any fire can caress the candle wick. His forehead drips slightly with sweat, and his gasps of frustration build more in there presence with every failed fl...
Submitted to Contest #297
WHACK! There goes Greg’s head, as it thuds furiously to the counter. He really needs to stop dozing off at his desk so often. He’s sat there, staring like a head- hollow zombie at the job search site for an hour now. And he is showing no signs of moving anytime soon. His doped out eyeballs swell red as his music app bellows out a song he has grown to hate. This was the fourth time he promised himself he’d change his playlist setup. But he always seems to forget, leading to more annoying shuffles of the same ten damn songs. Greg never seemed ...
Submitted to Contest #183
“Jesus Hannah, You’re looking fat” Jakob comments as he passes her in the lift. “You what?” She replies with appalled shock. Suddenly, to break the silence, he pushes out a forced laugh, to gesture as if he was joking. He signs to her that she is looking better than fine in-fact. Hannah laughs with recognition to his supposed joke, as the lift doors closed abruptly on her, eliminating the awkwardness. ‘Poor Hannah’, Jakob thought to himself, he actually believed post pregnancy had gone well for her body. He slaps himself with ir...
Submitted to Contest #163
“Why won’t you look at me, dad?” Kate demands with a broken, sorrowful voice. These were the first words uttered for hours since ‘the argument’. Kate has spent all year being in lectures for her masters degree. And now she is suffering through another, on her first night of summer break? She had been trying to ignore any passive aggressive contempt she’d been receiving this evening, but this time it was too much for her to burden with. The silence had to stop. “Mum? Am I suppose to say sorry?”. Both parents squirm slightly in their seats a...
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