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Weekly Contest #349
The still air clung to the lone branch in the yard. For a moment, nothing moved.The branch had outlived the tree it once belonged to. A few leaves remained—thin, but green. The ground below held faint lines where other things had stood. Old weight pressed into soil. Memory without a name.The yard was small. Two acres, once measured. Now it was simply here. Fences leaned and failed a little more each season. Grass grew when it could. Moss took whatever shade it found. Nothing was guided anymore. Nothing corrected. The land learned itself.Soun...
Weekly Contest #348
THE BREATHLESS GUARDIANA Deep Exhaleby Yankele Greene I. The Breath I Never TookBefore light, there was warmth. Before breath, there were voices.A woman’s sobbing. A man whispering prayers into a silence too heavy for any child to bear.I floated in that fading warmth, knowing—somehow—that I would never breathe the air of that room. That I would never open my eyes to see the face of the man begging for one fragile breath.Then everything went dark.That is where my life ended. Where it should have ended.So when I woke again—gasping, drenched in...
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