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Submitted to Contest #260
Lucid dreaming: a type of dream wherein the person realizes they are dreaming. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of control over the dreamâs characters, narrative, or environment.One night, I had a dream in which I stood on the edge of a building, a skyscraper, overlooking the sights of an endless, silver metropolis. I had this vivid fear of slipping and falling off, but at the same time, I couldnât step away from the edge as if my feet were glued to the concrete. Then I looked down and saw a bear walking on its hind leg...
Submitted to Contest #259
Youâre sitting on a linen sofa, looking at a painting on the wall that depicts a young boy with blond, curly hair dressed in his Sundayâs best, posing against a doorframe. His face is turned to show its left half. Surrounding you are cherry wood cupboards and stands with 19th-century lamps, windows clothed in floral curtains, an electric chandelier overhead, and to your side, a tall mirror on top of the crested hearth.    Voices buzz from the adjoining room, but youâve sequestered yourself alone in here because you wanted...
Submitted to Contest #258
Up above, on a blank wall, sat a widescreen video display showing swirls of blue, red, and orange moving along like tranquil waves. Then, in a flash, the screen switched to a drone shot of a large, rectangular building, boxes of white stone or glass stacked on top of each other, followed by a dark-blue-suited man standing in front of a rooftop garden, hedges snipped into swirls or elongated eggs. Â Â Â Â Meanwhile, through speakers at either corner ends of the wall, the manâs voice echoed, âEver wish you could take in the bea...
Submitted to Contest #257
Sensitive content note: implied sexual abuse, violence & gore, mental disability. Inside a cell encased by four-inch thick walls, housing one narrow bed and a toilet, locked behind a heavy, iron door with a narrow slit window of fortified glass, sits a man humming. His face has no hair, only scars littering his skin like an infectionânone bigger than a needle but more numerous than a flock of locusts. His left eyelid is permanently swollen, swallowing half of his sight. Inmates call him âThe Cyclopsâ. His nose has a dent in the middle, c...
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