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Submitted to Contest #281
“Hard to kill.” That’s what she’d said when she met me.Many seasons ago, I was nestled in a pot alongside my brethren, all of us contentedly drawing up water from our recently dampened soil. She was an unremarkable human drifting past us, eyes lazily flicking over the rows of foliage surrounding her. Air rushed through my leaves as I felt myself being lifted and she read from the card wedged into my uppermost roots.“Easy to care for, thrives in bright light, water when soil is dry.” She examined my fleshy emerald leaves that spiralled o...
Submitted to Contest #280
[CW - mild language]Hey Soph, do you have any paracetamol?There’s some in my bedside drawer, help yourself.Thank you so much, my head is pounding.You had a good night then?Oh my god. So much drama, too much tequila, I need to tell you everything. Can I sit here?Sure, just move the books off the pillow.Urgh they’re so heavy, did you carry them all the way back from the library? Yeah, I thought my fingers were going to drop off.“Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection”, what even is mantle convection?It’s when-Nope, I changed my mind...
Submitted to Contest #279
[This story contains excerpts from the Time-Keepers Manual, 12th Edition, published by the Management at the Bureau of Time Safety, to assist the reader in understanding the terminology used. If there’s one thing you should know about Management, it’s that they love an acronym.]The T.Wi.G.L.E.T. was malfunctioning.[The Time-Winder, Garment-Loader, Expert-Teleporter device, often abbreviated to T.Wi.G.L.E.T., is the most advanced Keeper device in existence. Its state-of-the-art technology allows three unique functions, all designed to interfa...
Submitted to Contest #278
[TW: terminal illness, abuse, suicide, murder, one swear word]“To learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”The quote echoes around my head as I wait for him. I am staring at the ceiling when he arrives, my tired eyes tracing the cracks in the white plaster. I have done little else for days and now when I close my eyes I can see the same web-like pattern on the back of my eyelids. Numerous starchy pillows behind my head and torso prop me up so that I am sitting somewhat upright in the bed. A heavy presence enters th...
Submitted to Contest #277
“At this point, I think Wilfred hates me,” Daniel said, kicking off his shoes in the hallway. He walked to the kitchen and placed two heavy shopping bags on the table, flexing his hands in relief. “He doesn’t hate you,” Olivia insisted, following him into the kitchen with two shopping bags of her own. “He just needs to get to know you.”“How’s he going to do that if he always leaves when I come round?” Daniel started passing Olivia the fridge items from the bags. He’d learned not to put anything away himself; Olivia had a fridge system she wa...
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