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Submitted to Contest #309
They had been on safari near Lake Victoria for two days. Miss Evans-Ryder, in a plaid tailored jacket and skirt, had assumed she would be hot, but was quite comfortable. Dr. Macaulay’s wife, hot, fanned herself constantly and tried to enlist the fanning aid of the impassive Bantu manservant.“He will not help me, Rose, he thinks I am weak,” Mrs. Macaulay whined as they sat on camp chairs under an acacia. “Perhaps Mr. Prentiss would assist him in amending his duties.” This last Mrs. Macaulay said as Mr. Prentiss walked toward them, which made ...
Submitted to Contest #219
Tim shoved a giant box through the front door. It rasped on the floor and caused Tim’s wife, Laura, to start from her position reading a book on the couch.“Ooo!” she said, smiling. “Who’s that from?”“Aunt Too,” he grunted. He pushed the box one more foot and closed the front door behind him. “It’s annoyingly heavy. A good metaphor for her.”“Oh, come on, she’s not that bad,” Laura said, walking over. She bent down by the box, took her keys from the doorside table, and sliced the tape on the box with her big back door key. Inside was a large p...
Submitted to Contest #214
We were riding our bikes. Tomorrow we would have to go back to school, but today we were riding our bikes down Park Heights, around the field and woods near Towanda Rec Center, back up Reisterstown Road, and in and out of all the little side streets around our houses where the big fans outside the Chinese places blew out fried food smell and the trash was heaped up high and sometimes you could see two people hiding out doing stuff with each other that they probably should be doing inside. It was two in the afternoon. The sun was super-hot....
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