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Submitted to Contest #287
I had never seen so many flowers.They hung from the wisteria tree overhead, and glowed like white lanterns from the blossoming magnolia tree. I breathed deep, amazed at the smell; I’d never seen a real magnolia tree. The closest I’d been was under the closed lid of a scented candle. I’d been a city girl all my long life, and even as I grew older and slower and the clock grew short, I never did buy my cottage in upstate. Ivy climbed hedge walls and barely-glimpsed trellises. Sunflowers stood well over my head and tracked the distant sun throu...
Submitted to Contest #284
He looked down at the chipped gym-locker combination lock. He looked at the box. The box looked back.Ben Graham dropped the lock back in the drawer of junk where he’d exhumed it. There was no latch—nothing, nowhere on the box to even put a lock.Maybe Justin can weld something for me…His eyes slid back to the box, pulled by gravity. Barely the size of a shoebox, wood darkened by the oil of hundreds of hands.If he got close, Ben could almost make out something on the lid. But when he got close to it and got looking at the thing, he found his h...
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