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Submitted to Contest #231
Sammy started to climb. The frame was only a metre tall but to him, it felt like a mile. He took his position by holding onto two plastic rocks and planting one of his feet on the other. At last, he left the red mulch beneath him. Across the back of his Transformers t-shirt, the sun licked his back. Its touch was hot and every time Sammy’s fingers grazed the metal sheet holding the green plastic rocks his fingers pulled back as fast as the chickens in the coop when he wanted to pick them up. Eventually, he wrapped his fingers around the yell...
Submitted to Contest #190
“Speak now,” I tell the mirrorless reflection before me. Casting shadows of crooked elbows and broken arms across my body, it gently pulses with a translucent murky white that illuminates the ground in front of me. The light rises and falls with shallow breaths. I see straight through the tattered rags that hang precariously off its shoulders to the swaying forest behind. I'm not scared but my heart increases at the sight of myself. Has my mind finally left sanity's sweet cradle? Or is this a spectre of myself? “I demand a response,” I whisp...
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