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Submitted to Contest #298
Peter skipped among dead leaves and rubbish. He hummed along to the static in the air.Carnival debris swirled, dust devil scrap in the wind. Torn ticket stubs, sweets wrappers, hand-drawn posters: Two-headed lamb! Rides! Dr. Zafieri the hypnotist! All the wonders of the great wide world, here, in Peter’s little nowhere town.And he’d missed it.He’d wanted to bring Annie. But they’d had a fight, and now the carnival was gone, kicking up dust on its way to the next little nowhere town.It’s alright, Peter thought, and he smiled. He swung his poc...
Submitted to Contest #297
Sensitive themes: Sex, language The pen is chained to the counter. The chain stretches taut; John is halfway through signing his last name on the registration card when it snaps. The receptionist shrugs when he starts to apologize. LISA, her name tag reads, the stick-on letters crooked and peeling as if readying themselves to be rearranged for her inevitable replacement.“Your room’s on the second floor. Checkout’s at eleven.” LISA snaps her gum and hands John a key, real metal, rust-scented. “Unless you want a late checkout. Or want to ext...
Shortlisted for Contest #210 ⭐️
Dysus drove west, obeying the speed limit, and he trembled as he tried to light his seventh cigarette of the morning. His lips tingled around the filter. He smelled his own stale breath, captured in the palm he cupped around the lighter’s weak flame. He swallowed against the sticky thudding of the pulse that beat too high in his throat. The cigarette caught the flame and smoldered. Dysus cracked his window, and the smoke that drifted up to burn his eyes was sucked away into the cold morning. He coasted under yet another green light. He’d enc...
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