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Colin Sharpe

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Out of Time

Colin Sharpe

Submitted to Contest #56

Cairo 450 BCE The sun beat down against the dusty streets of Cairo like searing fire that morning, heating the light stones to nearly burn underfoot and send all but the most ambitious street vendors to the cool shade of covered tents and bazaars. When Ra declared a day of heavenly light, all wise Egyptians knew to keep their eyes low and stay indoors. But the boys who raced along those Cairo streets that morning knew nothing of the Sun God Ra or his unyielding power over his domain. Perhaps Helios had driven the grand chariot closer to ...

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Deep Cover

Colin Sharpe

Submitted to Contest #55

The winding Ozark roads spat with dust under grinding wheels as she whipped around the banked curves, settling in the late-afternoon light as she shot over narrow bridges and fired past the grazing roadside deer. The parents and teachers had called her Ricky Rocket in high school, mostly for what she did on the football field. Everyone with half a brain and a decent engine knew it was because no one, and she meant no one, could touch her on the road. Most people called her crazy. Some called her a psycho, said she had a deathwish, ...

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Brushburn

Colin Sharpe

Submitted to Contest #54

Brushburn Bon’ in sixty fo’, in Lake Charles, Lous-e-anne. A proud boy, proud son, proud father, proud man. Jim Boudreaux, known by his friends and his neighbors as Jimmy, wasn’t the smartest man, wasn’t the funniest man, wasn’t the baddest or the best, but he was a good man and a man of God. When he was three, he learned to fish. When he was seven, he learned to drive the tractor, and his father’s big truck, though he couldn’t get it out of first gear until he was 11 on account of the clutch and stubb...

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