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Submitted to Contest #223
The Library Card Barry Wilder watched as the Librarian scanned his Readerβs Card to gain access to Duke Humphries Library. Years of genealogical research into the Wilder family culminated in this trip to visit the Domesday book and collection and its list of property owners after William the Conqueror became king. All of his research pointed to his family being substantial landowners under King E...
Submitted to Contest #196
Deja-Vu Decision Time By Derek Hastings The first time I experienced the Deja Vu interruption I spent much of my day feeling a particularly persistent restlessness. The kind of restlessness that comes with a profound invasive sense of boredom. Something I have begun to call; the Same-Old, Same-Old disease. I had spent...
Submitted to Contest #82
The rain came down in sheets causing a deep incoming surf on the street. βWhoever thought that Gore-Tex would keep you dry in a rainstorm that would have impressed Noah, is out of their minds!β Garald thought. The walk from the bus-stop was only β perhaps on a lazy summer afternoon β a hundred yards or so, but today was the length of three football fields. Thankfully, his backpack, holding the curriculum for his class...
Submitted to Contest #32
GravityBy Derek L. HastingsMy life changed the day I pulled myself into the Library. It was a place I never wanted to visit. Life was a daily grind of launching and landing. The struggle to keep the lack of gravity from dominating my life. Just like everyone else I knew. The struggle was very real. The day began with releasing the belts that held me in my bed so that I could sleep without worrying about fl...
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