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Submitted to Contest #300
“Flight LH 1523 from Frankfurt to Warsaw has been cancelled due to weather at the destination.” The announcement boomed over the intercom. “Please see our customer service agents to be rebooked.”A collective groan echoed through the boarding area, pulling Diana’s attention from the lone stamp in her passport. Chaos erupted around her as people leapt to their feet and rushed to be first in the queue, leaving Diana and strewn luggage in their wake. By the time Diana joined the queue, half the flight was ahead of her, filling the mostly empty t...
Submitted to Contest #299
I had arrived. Where I was, I didn’t know but I could sense that it was where I needed to be. The aroma of pine and lemon drifting in the air told me that I hadn’t yet left my car, so I stepped out and breathed in a lungful of diesel and a mouthful of dirt, which tasted vaguely of wheat. I spit it back out.“Must be North Dakota,” I said just before the wind knocked my feet out from under me, sending me crashing onto the tarmac. Unfortunately, as it was North Dakota, I had no way of defending myself against the wind as I sought my target: Hap...
Submitted to Contest #298
It’s never easy to admit that you’ve been lied to, that your life was built on faulty foundations. It’s easier to keep pretending that the ground beneath your feet is solid and keep going as you always have. Because the alternative is to unmoor yourself from the safe, if fake, world you know, and to become a raft drifting along the ocean with no compass and no company. In short, it was the scariest thing Marcus had ever done. It had taken a long time to gather the courage to leave. For most of his life, he’d done as he was told, believed wh...
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