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Submitted to Contest #321
I strolled through the busy streets of some city; it didn’t matter which one. I had walked through thousands, watched them rise and fall. Civilizations were born and died before my eyes. What did it matter what they called the place? The name would change a dozen times before it inevitably fell like so many others. And I would live on, waiting for the next.Blood, dry and flaking, crusted my right hand. A lukewarm bottle of amber liquor dangled from my left. I raised it to my lips, the burn a familiar companion; my only companion.The eyes of ...
Submitted to Contest #320
Sera strolled down the dirt path, the crunch and slide under her tennis shoes as familiar to her as the sigh of the wind through the trees or the lines in the palm of her hand. Her parents had forbidden her from walking down the road that cut through the forest after dark when she was a child. The town had curfews to discourage the public from taking the unlit back roads at night.It was dangerous, they all said. People disappeared on the forest roads.But Sera loved the quiet roads, the whispering trees, and the bright full moon hanging in th...
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