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Submitted to Contest #281
Life was simple. As soon as I was taken from my shipping box, I had very few surprises. I was placed in a bin where my job was to simply wait. Wait to be shuffled to the top, wait to be noticed, wait to be returned to the bin. Some days would be more exciting than others, of course. I could go from top to bottom and back again five times in a day if it was busy, but no matter how many times I was picked up, I would always be put back and the lemur, dog, or unicorn next to me would be picked up. Some came back, some didn’t.Of course none of u...
Submitted to Contest #277
Her bleary gray eyes scanned the small square of horizon that appeared on her window screen. Small trees swayed in the breeze as streaky clouds slowly etched their way across the gray-blue sky, nearly mirroring the cloudy gray-blue of her gaze. In the foreground, little purple flowers dipped their heads to her as if in greeting and two small birds hopped gently on the ground. If she had blinked at the wrong moment, she wouldn't have noticed that occasionally the little birds would appear to be missing a foot where one had just been a moment ...
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