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Submitted to Contest #85
FIVE BUCKS PROMISE His head was too big for his body. His big hollow eyes stark and his cheekbones tight against his dusty pale skin. Crouched on the ground covered with yellow dust, this 10-year-old waited for the puppy to crawl out from under the low raised platform of his neighbor’s home. He smiled as he watched the puppy eat the gravel. How fun it would be to let it fight with the puppies of the other kids on the ground he thought. He was pretty sure his would wallop the daylight out of every other. “Looking for dust?” Bailey said. He l...
Submitted to Contest #83
LAST ADVENTURE It was one dawn in autumn of 1978 India, the door of the second youngest male of the Khu household creaked open and his disturbingly lanky and dark figure emerged, with a small backpack tightly clutched to his chest. The streak of dawn painted the sky, the sun was itching to rise from behind the hills and the stark white temple of the Khu household looked exquisitely beautiful against the hilly background with its marbled floors. The young lad tiptoed across the long corridor, hiding behind the huge round pillars at the drop o...
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