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Submitted to Contest #297
The woman wailed, piercing the near perfect silence of the early hours of the morning. The cry reverberated through the hollow of a burnt out building, echoing its way to empty, broken streets. Two women were jammed into a makeshift partus nest tucked into the corner of a closet on the second floor. Sprawling urbana and a whistling breeze bore through the eroded cement wall, giving them an oddly beautiful vistal view of the remains of a once thriving city while also whisking away the smells of effort, blood, and shit. The chill of Autumn kep...
Submitted to Contest #293
The woman lived alone. Nobody was there to help her when her vision blurred, the left side of her face went slack, and her legs gave out. She collapsed in an unnatural heap, like a ball-jointed doll, her neck crooked and head semi-propped up against the edge of a boxy table. Miraculously, she’d only just missed the edge, and anyway, her body was going numb and tingly in alternative waves. There was no pain, but her vision swirled together, making a kaleidoscope of the eclectic decor she’d spent the last ten years collecting. Teals, turq...
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