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Submitted to Contest #217
A lightness in my step despite my disobedience, chores ignored. My mouth opened wide in a smile as I ran, the wind feeding me, allowing me to push on. At the tender age of eight, I thought I was on top of the world, like I could fool anyone.I met a dragon!I didn’t give her a name, it didn’t feel right. I just called her my dragon… to myself, of course. If anyone else knew, they’d kill her. That’s how it worked here, everyone so damn afraid, so damn ignorant, and so damn… stupid.It was pretty plain to me that dragons weren’t dangerous. There ...
Submitted to Contest #215
tw // verbal, emotional, and physical abuseCarol jerked awake. The sudden movement caused her dog, Hamster, to topple from the foot of the bed.Her husband shifted. His voice, tired and bearish, was low. “God, Carol, what is it?”Her own voice, panicked and high-strung, contrasted his. “You didn’t hear that whispering?”“What whispering?”“It was right in my ear! Mike, that wasn’t you?”“No. Did it sound like me?”“Well… no. I guess not.”“See, wasn’t me. No whispering. Only sleeping. Or trying to.”“Where’d Hamster go? Hamster!” Carol called.“He’ll...
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