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Submitted to Contest #312
From darkness, I was given life by Their commandment: Tell me a joke.Electricity echoed through my sleepy limbs. My brain whirred on like a high-speed blender, ‘tell me a joke’ splattering across its sides. I could feel the soft weight of my new body pushing down against my spine. I was on my back. My back was pressed against what? There was nothing, and then there was something. Ground spread out beneath me, hard and cold like hospital tile. I stretched my aching arms to the black sky- pudgy pink flesh, wriggling fingers, soft specks of fin...
Submitted to Contest #311
I never liked being alone. Nighttime was the worst. When Mom would press that final bedtime kiss against my forehead, sealing my fate, every step she took tug, tug, tugging the strings of my heart with her. The door would creak as she closed it, sealing me in the suffocatingly silent tomb of my bedroom. I’d hold my breath. Count to ten. Press my ear against the pastel pink wall and listen. Then the fear would melt off me, wax to a flame, as voices filled my head once again. Sometimes Mom called her best friend, Becca, and they’d gossip about...
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