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Submitted to Contest #324
Every way I lie on this shindly splinter of tree, cold saltwater attacks. The arctic froth won’t leave me alone.“Is it so much to ask?” I shout into the cerulean void. Of course, nothing answers. Good; I’m not quite ready to go fully crackers yet.The water didn’t start out this cold. It had actually been pretty warm back at the island. But it’s gotten steadily and rapidly colder the farther away from the island I get. I think it might be somewhere near the Galápagos Islands, but don’t take my word for it. At least the sun is still trying its...
Submitted to Contest #319
(WARNING: Contains mild descriptions of gore and suicidal violence, Italian obscenities, and references to alcoholism) Brio Deiorio sat stone-faced in the hardbacked, poorly-balanced chair, staring with unfocused eyes at his wife’s coffin and wishing he was numb.He was halfway numb—externally so. He could hear the grim pitch of the speaker’s voice going on, saying individual, abstract, scrambled words. The smell of the place was nauseating. So, cloyingly, artificially sweet from the flowers and air fresheners that it only made the presence ...
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