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Submitted to Contest #210
The Jail keeper ran his metal stick along the bars. His keys and treat bag rattled sending the aroma of the ‘good-boy’ treats wafting through the air. Great loud woofs and mousey little yaps began to resonate through the cold and sterile block. This was my first stay in the Hound Pound. And hopefully it would be my last, either a trip to the room of no return or out the front door and out of this alien prison. I needed to learn to navigate this foreign environment if I was to find a way out. I was scratching my floppy ear with my big, back p...
Submitted to Contest #209
The heart monitor beeped rhythmically. Trish did not hear it. She did not know her parents stood crying, holding her hand. She did not sense the needles and tubes in her. She did not know the car accident had left her in a coma. She was simply a plain-looking, seventeen-year-old girl who lay dreaming in a hospital bed whilst the Waking World turned around her. …. Prom night was supposed to have been fun. It was supposed to have been a time of discovery. For Trish, though, it had been the nightmare. Its glittering lights and beautiful gowns...
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