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Submitted to Contest #279
The walk. The dead eyes. The hunger.The taste of brains.But now, years after all that, our victims walk the streets again, you see them wearing beanie hats or business suits or cute wide trousers from hip Scandinavian designers, some of them even pushing babies in strollers down Seventh Avenue. Kiefer and Beasley and me.The Night of the Living Dead, which we all saw, separately, when we were thirteen, started it. Beasley, now Sophie, said she already felt more zombie than human. Maybe our path was inevitable.We were dead, of c...
Submitted to Contest #278
CW: Themes of family trauma, grief, and sexual abuse.You, Cody, are ready to stop farting around, mooning around the band room watching Tom practice the clarinet. You are needed, and though you vowed never to go back, if you don’t, things will suck forever.The usual tableaux, sans you: Pop at his place, narrow shouldered, hair parted and combed. Mom, head bowed, frizzed and frowsy from cooking, Small James containing quivering kid energy inappropriate at the dinner table. Anne - and this is why you are required - pink cheeked and weeping.&nb...
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