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Submitted to Contest #309
Heading at a steady pace down the near-empty motorway, Everlyn blinked her eyes slowly and carefully. The oncoming headlights of the cars on the opposite side of the road were leaving star-shaped blotches at the edges of her vision, full-bodied celestial apparitions that threatened to blind her. The urge to reach up and press her hands against her screwed up eyelids was growing stronger by the minute, but there was no place to pull over and she was still a fair distance from home. Everlyn settled for meticulous blinking, hard but brief squee...
Submitted to Contest #300
This won’t be the hardest part. I remember slurring those words through clumsy, sleep-deprived lips, my stomach woefully empty. I remember Richard staring at me as if he didn’t know who I was, his fingers twitching in his lap. What on earth could be harder than this? The venom laced in his demand still wasn’t enough to lift me from my stupor. I willed my head to turn just a fraction to the right so I could look out the window instead, catch a glimpse of the pink and white spring petals I knew were falling from the trees beyond the glass outs...
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