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“Your protagonist makes a difficult choice made for the sake of survival. What happens next?”

Posted in Dramatic on Apr 3, 2026

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At Least Until Tomorrow

Andy Dail

Weekly Contest #349

I stood at the door for what seemed like hours. I desperately wanted to go inside and see her, but another part of me filled with dread at the thought of it.I’d spent the last seven months going through fleet marine training and you would think that fear was something they trained out of you.It was not.They simply trained you how to push through it. They treated fear as if it was some sort of liquid barrier…you only had to push hard enough against it, and you would come out the other side.I sighed, turned the knob, and walked in.I stood ther...

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