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Submitted to Contest #217
“She didn’t deserve this. She didn’t…fuck, she didn’t deserve any of this.” Zuri mutters to herself a distance away while the setting sun dips below the mountain overlook she paces on. I don’t know if she knows we can hear her, but knowing her, she probably doesn’t care. Wiping her spotless blade mindlessly, she curses this journey, and us, for taking from her. James sits behind me in front of the circular golden gate that we’ve spent the last month looking for. His sword lays beside him as he runs his red hands through his sun-kissed...
Submitted to Contest #216
My head droops, eyes fighting for their life as I try to stay awake. I will remember; I will be aware. I repeat the words over and over as my eyelashes flutter, but just as soon as those words trail away from my mind do I snap awake and shake the square table with my knee. The noise of casual chatter hits my ears before the smell of energy hits my nose. I wrinkle my face, wondering why I am here. I hate studying in places like this, and I hate studying late, and I haven’t been here since he left me. I gather my bearings as I try to re...
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