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C King

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I Dare You To Go Get It

C King

Submitted to Contest #94

He didn’t see it but he heard the crash behind him. He whipped around quick enough to see some of the glass fall out of the sill. There was a moment of quiet as the two teenagers looked onto the old dilapidated house. There weren’t any wild rumors circulating, it’d just been abandoned for years. Looking at the place gave them the creeps, but the empty lot next door was halfway between their houses, so they had to make due. “Hey, I dare you to-” he started. “I dare you to go get it.” she rattled off before he could finish. “Heck...

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A Slingshot and a Tradition

C King

Submitted to Contest #78

“Ouch!” Amara pulled her hand back after sticking her finger on a piece of jagged metal. Scraps weren’t kind but she knew them well. The walls groaned as a gust of wind pushed against the shack. A draft rolled across the floorboard and through the holes in her boots. She sucked on her finger for a second then let out a deep breath. She gave her lantern a twist and kept working. Slowly she wrapped a strip of sturdy cloth around the handle. Where it split up into a ‘U’ she carefully made a couple notches in the tips. She knotted both...

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Heavy Snow

C King

Submitted to Contest #77

There’s a haunting silence that comes with a fresh, heavy snow. When you’re out in the elements, that silence can be deafening as you trudge harsher and harsher ground, with only the crunching of your footsteps to let you know you can still hear anything at all. *** “Y’know there’s actually a scientific reason why snow makes it so quiet.” Josh chimed in, as he so often did. “Is that so?” Kyle asked between breaths. It’d been a grueling weekend but they were in the home stretch now. As Kyle started growing up he lost that boundles...

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