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Submitted to Contest #304
September. A dusty classroom. Desks covered with inked labels of rock bands and declarations of love. The teacher slouches in her chair – exhaustion in her eyes. She gazes into the distance, into the world beyond reality. A World Literature textbook – bought used – interprets the thoughts of the greatest minds, leaving no room for debate. Dostoevsky, the giant of darkness, the mighty philosopher, stares at you from the worn page. His lips move as if trying to tell you something.October. The leaves on the trees behind the classroom window die...
Submitted to Contest #303
We met in kindergarten, I think. I don’t remember exactly where it happened. It could have been at the playground in the park. The front windows of my house faced the park. The playground was the only place where my mother allowed me to go alone—she could watch me from the living room window.Nellie’s house was on the same street, just a couple of houses away. She, too, played in the park without supervision.Nellie was everything my mother wanted me to be: pleasant, clean, and with large pink pom-poms holding her sandy-colored hair. The exact...
Submitted to Contest #302
When the ship escaped the atmosphere and broke free from the gravity of KG08, Dr. Lambert, heavily inhaling the stale air of his spacesuit, glanced out the window. KG08, the artificial satellite of a long-abandoned planet in the Draco II galaxy, was a ball of flames. The spectacle was grand, and Dr. Lambert would have admired the destructive force of disaster as he always did, but he was overwhelmed by several thoughts at once. First, only a dozen Mahaa, those who followed him, managed to escape KG08; the rest of the Mahaa civilization was n...
Submitted to Contest #301
The final year of college was the loneliest for Ellen. Her parents, who had been discussing a move to Florida since her last year of high school, finally made the transition, packing their essentials and renting a small house in Pensacola. Heather, Ellen’s best friend, had a baby, and Ellen only heard from her through social media when she posted pictures of her chubby newborn. The guys Ellen liked didn’t share her feelings, and those who were attracted to her were in their thirties, recently divorced, with flashy cars they had purchased aft...
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