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Submitted to Contest #313
The cork mat had been on the floor for hours. Sandy nearly tripped on it twice, and since she’d had 3 Zoom meetings back to back, as soon as she remembered it was there, the thought shuttled through her brain and out the other side. Around 3, she looked at the clock. Kevin should have been home by now. He was supposed to be making the pasta sauce for their dinner, and the lack of sour tang in her nostrils as he put in his usual overdose of tomato paste was puckering her tongue to the roof of her mouth in a ghost of anticipation. Not that sh...
Submitted to Contest #297
“No.” “No what?” Vi looked down into the casket, its lid still off, her sister’s face a little sunken moon in the pillow. She didn’t know ‘what,’ honestly, and the more she thought about it, the more silly it seemed. Eve was looking at her with a perfectly placid and porcelain expression, the type of clean pokerface which made her such a legendary hunter among the Sidhe clan, but Vi knew better than to underestimate that look. She swept her hand side to side. “Well, what?” Eve said again. She pushed the shovel out, stretching her arm. Vi ...
Submitted to Contest #111
Jacqueline Varon’s hands worked feverishly. The light was dim, her workroom saturated with the pines and sepias of the evening gray, but that was not, as it was never, the cause for her hurry. Carefully, quietly, she bent over the uneven table purchased for sewing and kitchen work, but that was instead laden with scraps, screws, gears, bobs and bits. Threaded through her gloved fingers were the wide glassine reels of filament that made up the real cause for her speed. She had to be careful, quiet, as she threaded the ‘plastic’ paper ...
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