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Submitted to Contest #92
‘What if the past is a currency I can spend?’ I thought. “Oh, good idea for a story.” I really should reach for my phone, but I can’t. I can’t muster the energy. I think to myself, ‘remember, remember that idea.’ I never do. It’s dark. The room is cold. The tip of my nose is a little numb and I need a wee. Not badly. Just enough to irritate. Besides I’d need to be busting to move. I’m stuck. Why is this so hard? I have to push through. I have to escape this darkness. Or do I? I can embrace it. I can become the darkness. Well, no I can’t, I...
Submitted to Contest #91
The morning had set in, warm, loaded with the heat of the night and no promise of a cool change. Janice could feel the heat of the buzzing electrical billboards stinging her face as she parked her bicycle outside the cafe. The fourth 50-degree day in a row couldn’t depress her though. Her friend Mel approached with an attitude like the black scorch marks of stickers ripped from the back of road signs, smeared in carbon and impossible to remove. Janice and Mel played a game whenever they met because Mel hated small talk, even with her friend...
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