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Submitted to Contest #293
LEFT BEHIND “Stop! Stop! We’ve got to go back.”“Go back? For what? Last night, you told me you were itching to get out of Phoenix. Evan, that’s your name, right? Well, you and me, we’re almost 100 miles out of Phoenix. You got your wish. “ “But you don’t understand……” “What I understand is that I usually don’t take on strangers on my drives, Evan. You just lucked out. You caught Grace in a good mood. You must have had some persuasive swagger last night.” “Evan, yes, the name’s Evan. Evan Weiner. Swagger...
Submitted to Contest #289
HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN AN UNFAMILIAR ROOM “Hello? Where am I? This room is so strange. This can’t be a hotel room. This broken-down chair and me are the only things here! How did I get here and where is here ANYWAY? This can’t be a dream. . Should I pinch myself? Does that work? Probably not and anyway, I felt that pinch. It feels like I’m pretty high up. I hate heights. My God, it’s only 8 am. Why am I not sitting at the breakfast table? Why are the windows all taped up? Has someone moved ...
Submitted to Contest #288
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY… Once upon a time, so many years ago you couldn’t count them, in a nondescript land so far away from you (or anyone you know) that you couldn’t begin to count the miles, in a country that wasn’t enough of a country to deserve a name on a map, there lived a small nondescript child whose name was Eon. Eon was no taller than a small bookshelf. He was pale with shoe button eyes, a nose, hands and feet that were, well, small. When he stood in the shadows, Eon seemed invisible. Eon was not...
Submitted to Contest #287
TEA AND NO SYMPATHY “Jeremy, I know you are surprised that I invited you here. After all that’s happened between us. But sometimes we have to put the past aside, right? And it occurred to me that since you have been everywhere, unlike me, and you’ve eaten and probably poured yourself everything worth pouring –especially tea--in parts of the world that someone like me could only dream about visiting, you would be more than a little interested to try a new tea –a tea that you have never encountered before! That’s why I invited you ...
Submitted to Contest #285
THE GIFT Hello, Doctor Solomon? Your secretary said you would be okay talking with me on the phone today because you had time between seeing patients. I know it’s kind of weird to do therapy on the phone but I needed to talk to someone. Well, not someone, but you.You’re not at work?No, I’m calling from home. I left the office because you know how they feel about making personal phone calls. I guess it adds up. Anyway, I wouldn’t have any privacy there.Go ahead, Gail. We can talk until my secretary buzzes me. How are you fee...
Submitted to Contest #283
SOMETHING IS AMISSI am not tall, friend. I was never tall. I am not much higher than the seat of your Wainscot chair. But, I pray you, do not see me in your mind’s eye as some sort of court dwarf. I am not that. I am just small of stature for my age of six and ten. I assure you I, Arthur, am what I am. And what does smallness matter in the scheme of things after all? Especially at this season of the year? It is Christmastide! In the year of our Lord, 1502. So what if some call me Tom Thumb behind my back in the sculler...
Submitted to Contest #282
MEA CULPA It’s me, Eve. Don’t hang up. I mean don’t stop reading. And don’t look to see how long this message is. If we were on better terms right now, I would make this short. But we aren’t on good terms are we? So I am going to make this long, Eve, and I want you to hear me out. I know you won’t pick up the phone because you are punishing me so I am texting you and yes, texting is going to sound less personal, but what is my alternative? Carrier pigeon, letter by drone, Western Union telegram? Sorry, if t...
Submitted to Contest #281
DON’T TOUCH THAT BOX! It just appeared there yesterday. That was the morning I got up and found “it” on my doorstep. Lets call it “it”. Let’s not allow “ it “ to get away with sounding innocuous or provocative or inviting or anything like that, by my calling it “the box”, or worse, “my box” ’. It is not my box! To my way of thinking, the Unknown is often synonymous with the unsavoryMaybe that is the case here. Okay, it isn’t like it is a corpse or a dead skunk or strewn garbage lhying there. No...
Submitted to Contest #280
THE QUESTION I’m serious, George. What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s not so silly a question. Don’t just shake your head like that! Yes, we are different. But we are together, you know? You have your life and I have mine and I don’t share everything with you, either, but you are small and young and have your whole life ahead of you. I can’t help but wonder how you see yourself as a grownup, you know? I should be able to read the answer in your eyes. I love your eyes,...
Submitted to Contest #278
O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?Precious Catherine:I have so many things to say to you, Catherine. That’s why I decided to set my laptop and phone aside and put the words that follow into the form of an old- fashioned handwritten letter. Handwritten! Who does that anymore? Why? Because it seemed a more honest and more personal way to say what I have been meaning to say to you for a while now. Ever since that night after our movie date I when I got that phone call and got up and left. And didn’t come back. Remember you asked me ‘did...
Submitted to Contest #276
CALL ME KAT “Aaron, it’s almost dinner time. Where are you going?”“I don’t know. It’s the strangest thing… but did you see the black cat that showed up at the back door? ….This is the second morning I found her sitting on the porch …almost like she’s waiting for me, waiting for me to join her. She didn’t even look at the sauce of milk I put out for her. Aren’t cats supposed to like milk? She just sat there and gave me that look. Looked me straight in the eye. Anyway it felt that way.”“What look? ““As though she wanted me to f...
Submitted to Contest #274
WHERE THE WILD THINGS AREN’T “Tell me again about this night terror of yours, Aidan …How do you describe it? ““It’s simple. It’s real simple, doc. I just can’t look under the bed, never, not after the sun goes down. ““Because there is a monster there? You know that is a very childish fear. And you are 30 years old now. That makes you a grown-up.”“You don’t have to remind me, doc. You are the only one I can talk to. The only one who will listen.”“Well, okay, let’s talk about it. Again. Tell me what you think is under the bed?...
Submitted to Contest #273
THE PATH ALMOST TAKEN I don't usually walk at night, well, not this late after dark but I have a reason to walk tonight. This is no time for a car ride. And I am recording my thoughts because well, maybe someone (I really don't know who) might be interested in hearing why I did what I am about to do. And it‘s too late to tell me I am being impulsive, headstrong. It’s much too late for that. By the time you will hear this, whoever you are. Maybe you’re just a morbid bystander, maybe a friend (if I ha...
Submitted to Contest #271
YOUR HUSBAND, MY HUSBAND, WHOSE HUSBAND? “What a five-star day! Makes you forget all your troubles out here on the ocean. Have you ever taken a cruise before? Have you ever been to this part of the world …..before?”“Actually this is my first. My first cruise and my first visit to the Greek Islands. It’s thrilling.”“Mine too ... I don’t know why I waited this long. Oh, sorry, my name is Estelle. I’m traveling alone. ““ I’m Joy. Nice to meet you. I’m also traveling solo. But same here. I don’t know why I waited so long except, well, I wou...
Submitted to Contest #270
THE BIG CHILL (or REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD) “Look at the calendar. Look! It’s been two long years to the day that I’ve been locked up been in here! I shouldn’t be here at all. Ed, I know and I know you know in your heart of hearts that I had nothing to do with that hold-up. Why would I, a man of lifelong good character, a man of principle, a professional chef, even consider such a criminal act like bank robbery for one minute? Why?”“Yeah, I know, Jacko, of course you are innocent. Everyone in this joint is innocent, an...
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