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Submitted to Contest #62
The dust swirled down the hallway, fleeing from Emma’s swift broom strokes. A folded-up piece of paper skittered from the corner. She trapped it with her foot and picked it up. It read: Happy Birthday Eyes open, it’s much later than you realized. Who’s in the house? Eyes wide, you peak through the clothes. Emma quickly tucked the slip of paper in her pocket. She had been finding notes like it scattered around her house. Their messages were strange enough, but even more unsettling was that they were all in her own messy handwriting....
Submitted to Contest #37
Let me think back to the start. Right, I still remember the feeling of walking through the cafeteria at the university. It was a hot and humid July, and the cafeteria was filled with high school students, like me, there for summer camp. Honestly, it was my first time away from home. Most of the other kids had been going away for summer camps and things for years, but I was fifteen and scared shitless at being away from my family for the first time ever. Of course, I was acutely aware of the dorkiness of this intense feeling, and so it seemed...
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