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Submitted to Contest #278
“Arms up,” the man said. A smile touched my lips, and I did as I was told. I knew that I’d fucked up, there was no denying it. This meeting was a formality, not a death sentence. I lifted my arms lightly above my head, my suit coat hung along my shoulders like torn-back sails. The man patted me down, unholstered my gun and tucked it along the back of his waistband and I looked at him with a questioning glance. The nerve of this one, I thought but remained silent, smelling the wafting cigar smoke pouring out of Father’s office. “You’ll get it...
Submitted to Contest #277
“Mommy… it’s dark mommy… I can’t find Teddy,” James said. And then, a small bloom of light emerged. James stood there, half shrouded in darkness, looking down at the wood beams running along the floor. His feet were bare, his clothes tattered as they clung in strange drifts in loose threads of clothing. “Mommy, where are you? Where’s Teddy?” The house around him, looked strange to his young mind… a boy, all of six...
Submitted to Contest #276
When I was in middle school, around the age of twelve or thirteen, I was the class reject. My father did not have all the money in the word, being a single father of three kids... two girls and a boy (myself, the only boy of two female siblings) I had a challenging time sharing the bathrooms in the morning. I often was forced to stand outside holding my bladder, before I was soon to inadvertently wet myself there in the cold hallway on chilly autumn mornings. We got along about as well as expected at this age, bitching and moaning as young a...
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