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Submitted to Contest #324
Whether you consider the shouting match he’d just had with his wife, Zakutu, over her treatment of Vashti, his new concubine, the cheeky Babylonian Ambassador who had just offered Marduk’s help in relieving the devastating summer drought they’d been suffering, if only His Majesty would be good enough to authorize a new temple to his chief rival’s god, or the stifling heat in the main audience hall of his spacious palace, Senachreb, by the grace of Ashur and Ishtar, King of the Four Corners of the World, not to mention his magnificent capital...
Submitted to Contest #323
These guys always look the same, don't they? Oily, unkempt hair falling halfhazardly on a wrinkled, sweaty brow. Eyes blinking rapidly. Dirty tee that looks like it’s been slept in. Blizzard of Ozz, figures.His hand trembles a bit as he pushes the page toward me. Too much coffee. Or booze.I can barely make out the printed text in the dim, candlelit room. 12th point, single-spaced, of course. His eyes widen as I use my phone as a flashlight; he must have expected a snap of my fingers to do the trick.A quick scan of the first few lines. Ugh, t...
Submitted to Contest #319
“Stay with me”, he begged the moon.“Stay, for when you’re gone, I shall have to be a man again, no longer at home in this enchanted forest.”So she stayed with him, and the snow sparkled with her gentle smile, and the trees lit the forest: eerie, cold torches.And so he sang his stories for her.And the owl listened… “It was not a wild beast that doomed me,” the wolf started, as the nearby cedar bent its snow-laden branches in sympathy, and the owl blinked its large, wise eyes, “but the sharp nails of a woman’s passion…”“Hauntingly beautiful sh...
Submitted to Contest #317
“Is he going to understand where he is, Dr. Soma?”Somasundaram, but most people call me Soma, the man had said when they met for the first appointment. A doctor in jeans and a worn-out tee I wouldn’t use to wash the floor or even garden in. What happened to a shirt, tie, and white coat?“Not unless you tell him, Ms. Ruhl, certainly not at first, and perhaps not ever…” He paused. “Though he may appear confused or repeat certain questions at times. That’s completely normal.” He let the absurdity of that statement hang in the air, fighting a she...
Submitted to Contest #301
QuriosityBy A. GeeA bright light flashed in Sam’s right eye, startling him and making him look up from his laptop onto the city unfolding through his wall-to-wall window. Ah, it was just a bit of sunlight reflecting off One57, the sleek, new blue-glass residential skyscraper on West 57th Street, less than a mile from his Dakota penthouse.Some of Sam’s friends have been talking about moving in there, but he wouldn’t dream of leaving the Dakota. How does one get better branding than that? Sam knew all about branding, going up the marketing cha...
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