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Submitted to Contest #105
PART 1 – TRAGIC To be tragic was to discover one was never meant for anything except death. To be tragic was to leave a world before anything with a false sense of importance could be achieved. To be tragic was to be a hero with a life left unfinished, a life left frozen in a sheen of ashes, and I could never understand its appeal. Other warriors craved it like their next breath. Within their puffed-up...
Submitted to Contest #104
When Clementine dreamed, her mind seemed to leave her body like a ghost dissipating from its former self. She found new worlds written in the ways of simplicity, and every time she woke from such dreams, she wished she hadn’t. This afternoon was no different. She’d fallen under the spell of the pretty purple sky beyond the long window next to her bed. The warm air had swooped her away from the novel she’d been reading, one just a...
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