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Submitted to Contest #136
Write about a character giving something one last shot. The Wall I’m struggling here. My legs burn, my insteps and toes are cramped, my hands look like claws, my arms are shaking. I’m hanging on a very thin rope 45 feet up a climbing wall in the middle of a 3-story department store. I beat the wall with my left toe, searching for a toe hold. I shift my weight, push myself up the wall with my legs while my hands seek hand holds. Sweat burns my eyes, I throw my right arm up to snag the next hold with my frozen clawed hand. I shift too s...
Submitted to Contest #100
Start or end story with two characters sitting down for a meal When The Kids Know by Carolyn Varvel Sue Carson whispered fugitively into her cell phone, “Are you sure? Do we really have to tell them? I’m not sure how the boys will take it.” She chewed her lip as she listened. She looked quickly around the kitchen and realized she’d forgotten to do dishes when she came in from her after work meeting. Her son, fourteen year old Neil Carson slinky crawled out of the kitchen doorway, down the three steps into the sunken living room. “...
Submitted to Contest #99
I Remember: A Missouri Summer Slice of Life “Mom, she’s touching me!” “He won’t move his legs!” Mom turns toward the back of the car, “Shut up! All of you! Go to sleep.” We three kids are stuffed into the back seat of our parents’ new ’56 Chevy station wagon as we barrel from a Colorado crystal blue afternoon sky to Kansas gray, headed for Missouri soggy. Air is hot and stuffy. Dreams of being held down, drowning, I wake up with a start to find my younger sister lying on top of me. I shove her off, waking her up. She stretches and l...
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