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The first time I saw Nicky, I was out celebrating with my friend Craig on an early Friday night. We headed over to a new Italian restaurant and there she was waitressing in her white collared shirt, and black slacks with the matching tie. My first impressions of her was a sensory overload. I had never seen anyone so physically alluring. It was like an aura of ecstasy just radiating around her. She smiled and handed me the menu first...
I'm an anomaly on this wretched Earth and a piece of shit who doesn't deserve to live. My conclusion to that statement is a private matter that I am working with my therapist on. I am saddened that good people around me often pay the price. In this life you must always keep your guard up and be cautious or some stranger like myself will be there when you least expect it.My therapist seems to think, my pessimistic behavior is attributed to an eating disorder called binge eating disorder, this is after I described to her during a session how m...
Memories of my Dad shouting at me kept replaying in my head after he found the fresh bruise marks around my veins. His reaction was to ship me off to stay with my brother and his family way down South in a small town surrounded by an abundance of oak trees and overzealous religious beliefs. The community seemed like a close-knit group of people, everyone with plantation-style houses spread apart by large acres of grassy lawns. When I arrived at his house, I was puffy-eyed...
Submitted to Contest #210
CW: Some Adult Language.Adriana and I had been in a dry spell all day without selling a single piece of artwork, a disappointing realization for our first time at a comic con. Adriana who had been sitting at her booth next to mine kept reminding me of how much money we could have made working from home. On a good day on commissions, we'd make 20 dollars for a full-body line art, that's about 2 or 3 hours of work within a week's time frame. It's maybe fifteen bucks more for an expedited piece. Adriana had been a little pricier, sometimes she'...
Submitted to Contest #205
My mood had changed drastically after hearing the big news. Nothing could ever prepare you for hearing about a loved one dying, even when you know it's coming. That was the first time I saw my father cry and his lips quivered when he broke the news to me that Grandma Myra was dead. I had watched him turn from a man who'd never shared an ounce of vulnerability to a sobbing child. It scared me. I couldn't bear to watch him this way, so I ran and ran as fast as I could. In a way, I was running from the inevitable realization of death. "I c...
There's no school tomorrow, and Frankie's drawers are replenished with his favorite snacks, zesty Ranch 3D chips he purchased with his parent's allowance money. He's so excited for the new Pro Skater game that he destroys the plastic from its case with his bare teeth and shoved the disc inside the console. He flipped open the instruction booklet while the game loaded and took a whiff of that heavenly new-game fragrance. "Mmm... I miss that smell." His eyes unapologetically rolled back while a big grin painted his face.After a few s...
Everyday I watch those behemoth machines hover over me and a part of me gets this nagging feeling of envy. Like an itch I can't scratch. Maybe it's the first time in my life I felt jealousy for something. For as long as I've been alive spinning in this rock, I've been limited to this jagged asphalt, moving in a predetermined route. Today marks the special three year anniversary of when they adopted me and when I was born into "purpose". I was once an A.I. built into a patented auto-pilot technology created by a company who hired brillia...
Submitted to Contest #188
It was an early Summer morning when Maialen decided to visit her favorite spot by the beach to spy on the local boys playing soccer. She hoisted herself to a well positioned rock and brushed the algae accumulating around her gills. She noticed the laughter and chatters of the boys playing turned to cursing and shouting. Their game was interrupted by a single long board that had slid across their field, with a shaggy-haired boy chasing close behind. One boy playing soccer tossed the ball at the skateboarder's head before they all laughed wild...
The sky had began exploding in colorful bursts when I freaked out and lost control. I ran far away from home, and made it to an opened dark shed a mile away in the next town over. When I arrived, there was a creature lurking there on the edge of a fence with its mouth hung wide open, it hissed when it noticed my scent. "Beware, whiskered-one...they don't leave the spaghetti out on Mondays" she said with a crackle in her voice. It was an Opossum smiling with her big yellow teeth. She walked closer from the fence to get a better look at m...
It was Friday evening when we agreed to get together to confront the terrible situation with the growing transient population from up North. There were five of us, all depraved, a little exhausted and caffeine-deprived yearning to know what was going on in the world changing too quickly in the worse kind of way. "Happy Friday, people! I'm glad you've all made it. I have a little surprise for you all, but first we need to see all the goodies you've brought." I could see all of their eager eyes hovering around the coffee table gawking at ...
Paolo gripped Marcia's hand tight enough to leave it white from the pressure."Marcia, how can you sleep with this thing buzzing like that? Wake up!""I know. I know." Marcia yawned and closed her eyes again."Quick. The alarm just set off, someone just ripped through the front gate." Paolo cursed under his breath. He had just spotted on the camera a trail of blood left through the yard and whatever it was, it was banging on the front door now. He took a moment and tried to be calm with her, Marcia finally woke up and looked terrified.&nbs...
When the power went out, we used the bumpy texture on the walls to guide us like constellations back into the living room. My sister, Liz called out to me from the other room, while I could hear her friend panicking nearby. I think we all felt the same thing when the light's finally shut off. We all thought it was the end of everything. They say the last bits that you lose when you die is your hearing.So I understood Liz's friend, Beatriz shouts of fear."Eddy are you there?" Liz said. She only waited a moment before flat-out s...
My Parents had their eyes glued to the TV screen as they watched sections of the U.S. map slowly change in colors, like leaves from a Hickory Tree in autumn. Each section represented one more community in shambles that was left to fend for themselves. I watched the look of horror and confusion in their faces while their hearts palpitated in their chest. "I hope she's okay." My mom said fidgeting on the couch. She couldn't hold it together any longer. "After all that's going on, I really hope she didn't get distracted by one of tho...
I was only thirty minutes into Philosophy of Human Rights when my Wifi cut off. I'm stammering and running to the modem for a hard reset, when I could hear the waking moments of my Dad groaning in the other room. "Goddamn piece of shit! Piece of crap! Never wants to work!" He barged into my room. "Eddy?! Where are you?! Eddy!"  ...
It was true darkness inside the bedroom, the type of pitch black you only get before the naked moonlight pierces through the windows. There was something about the combination of dark and silence that troubled my gullible mind. It was danger, lighting a flame to my crazy imagination and allowing it to run wild. Those scary bedtime stories my mom would read to me before bed all sprung out from within my memories. I envisioned extending limbs, furry jointed legs, antennaes and elongated scaly ten...
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