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Submitted to Contest #295
There was a fire. They’d felt it before they saw it: a looming danger somewhere close, crawling towards them, trying to swallow them. Like a beast in a forest, a predator on the hunt. An all-consuming heat.Feid startled awake, sitting up. A breath. One, two, three breaths. Quiet. Clear air. No roar, no heat, no flames licking their body, just the night, their bed, soft grey of dawn soon to take over the world. They looked around in the dark room, just to be sure, their heart still beating faster.A nightmare, then. Okay, sure. That happened s...
Submitted to Contest #282
I know what happened. What she did. I’m telling you. Don’t believe her. Listen to me. Listen before it’s too late or in case I forget. It went like this: 1.We’re young but I feel old. Old and tired, as if I was supposed to do some great deeds but I got lost on the way, all tangled up. Between lectures, there’s Ari, her olive skin and eyes too light for her face. She’s the force driving me through it all. I learn for her, I pass exams for her, I haven’t quit this goddamned university for her. She lets me into her room in the evening. I expect...
Submitted to Contest #276
for K. He is introduced in the most bizarre way possible.“He’s you, but different,” my partner says. Ages later, there is this incredible pain. Ages before, a single stranded figure cries out on an empty island, “Eadwacer!” I knew that story from before. It didn’t make any sense and it was delightful in it. How countless scholars tried to understand the Old English verses, only to come up with nothing, with possibilities and doubts, and question marks. I love it dearly, for the very love of contrariness. * And so, he is introduced. We sit do...
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