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Submitted to Contest #300
The grass had turned to concrete. The new people paved over the front garden. They needed a larger driveway and more space for their four-wheel drives. The rose bush was stolen right before the movers arrived. By us, I should add. Mum dug it up in the dead of night. We worried they would notice and complain to the real estate agents, but they didn't. I suppose it was one less plant for them to dig up themselves. We did them a favour, really. We should have taken them all. Poor things. I hoped they weren't still there, suffocating under conc...
Submitted to Contest #298
The City came from the sea. It grew like a fungus, slowly at first but steadily spreading. It crept across the waters as more and more people settled there. Some sought shelter, others wanted safety, and some simply had nowhere else to go. The waters gave it life, gave it protection. While they also provided connections to any other port in the world they made it harder to reach, cut it off from the influence of other cities. It grew within itself for generations. The waters let trade in and out, drowned secrets and washed away things that p...
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